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These features include change-makers who have learned how to get involved locally and who are now sharing their step-by-step guide with you.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11881670\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/How-To-Headers-800x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/How-To-Headers-800x200.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/How-To-Headers-1020x255.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/How-To-Headers-160x40.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/How-To-Headers-1536x384.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/How-To-Headers.png 1584w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2016 presidential election motivated many to get involved in politics, as seen through a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/26/927803214/62-million-and-counting-americans-are-breaking-early-voting-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">higher voter turnout\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-women-than-ever-are-running-for-office-but-are-they-winning-their-primaries/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more women than ever running for office\u003c/a>. Social inequalities were made visible during the pandemic, and specifically, the ongoing deaths of Black Americans at the hands of police propelled people to the streets. It marked the summer of 2020 as the biggest protest for racial justice in a generation, and the Bay Area was no exception. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821834/bay-area-protests-over-death-of-george-floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Throughout the region\u003c/a>, specifically in downtown Oakland and San Jose, a number of young queer people of color decided to run for office in the cities they called home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them was Alex Lee. Right before the pandemic, Lee, Bay Area born and raised, moved back home with his parents in San Jose. He had been in Sacramento working for \u003ca href=\"https://sd27.senate.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state Sen. Henry Stern\u003c/a> crafting public safety, education, housing and senior-related legislation. Still, Lee felt disconnected from his neighbors. Then, Assemblymember Kansen Chu \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/assemblymember-kansen-chu-to-leave-legislature-run-for-county-supervisor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced\u003c/a> in 2019 that he would not be seek reelection for the 25th Assembly District that’s made up of parts of Alameda and Santa Clara counties. Lee decided to run for office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thinking ahead, he decided to take on the role of field representative for Silicon Valley Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://a28.asmdc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Low\u003c/a>, so that he would be ready to run for office. Lee believes the pandemic showed how government can be effective, a direct tool in improving people’s lives, but it needed to be improved and modernized. When Lee told his parents of his future plans, they said he was young enough to go for it. “I could literally restart my life four times and still be the age of my current surviving grandma,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2020, Lee won his race for state Assembly and became the youngest state legislator in almost a century, representing the 25th Assembly District. He’s also the first openly bisexual state legislator in California history. While there are many ways to run for office, Lee’s journey and tips highlight his unique experience of running for office during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC7907343389&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is now serving in Sacramento. 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Lee says the question he asks everyone who is considering running for any level of office is, “Do you feel passionate enough to do the job? And, do you feel educated enough to know the job you want to do?” [pullquote size=\"mediume\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alex Lee, 25th District assemblymember\"]‘Do you feel passionate enough to do the job? And, do you feel educated enough to know the job you want to do?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee explored this question through his involvement in student government and taking various internships to find out what it was really like to be in office. Although his journey took him to the state Capitol to do important policy work, he wasn’t on the ground connecting with residents every day. Part of the reflection is really think about what job best fits you and your desired impact, he said. Ultimately, if you care about your school community perhaps running for a school board would be the best fit or working on school policy at the state Legislature level, but those two roles are different, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe in running just to run for something and be an elected official. I know a lot of people insultingly told me, ‘Oh, Alex you should run for school board or city council instead, and then you can run for state Assembly.’ And I was like, it’s offensive to those jobs, because those are real jobs where real decisions are made. And I’m not going to use it as a stepping stone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to run for some fake idea of clout, Lee said, “there is no clout, there is no glory. Plus, people know when you’re faking it.” For example, during the election even when people didn’t agree with Lee on all issues or differed ideologically, they supported him because he was genuine and authentic. In his work now, he’s able to get bipartisan support on issues he cares about.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Learn How to Swim by Jumping In\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lee got his start by participating in student government as student body president while he was at UC Davis. He represented 30,000 students, which he compares to being a mayor of a small town. As study body president he advocated for lowering tuition, increasing student services and tackling the local housing scarcity and affordability — all while closing the $13 million budget deficit of the student association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through this experience he learned the fundamentals of campaigning, which he says are similar across all types of races, and only vary in scale. Before running for state Assembly he was also a legislative staffer at the state Capitol, where he helped write the bills and prepare all the needed documents for the Assembly member he worked with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of campaigning, Lee just jumped in. “My timeline is [legislative] staff and student government,” Lee said. “Then someone asked me to be their campaign manager after never literally running a real campaign before.” He applied the same principles of his run for UC Davis student body president and it turned out to be such a successful campaign that he was asked to be a campaign manager once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He credits his friends and mentors that helped him demystify the process. “Elections are made intentionally to be exclusive, intimidating. But once you kind of strip down a lot of the B.S. and ask, ‘Why do people do these things?’ And their answer was, ‘Well because they just do it.’ ” Lee decided to take a different path. That meant Lee’s campaign would be free from some of the traditional obligations of campaigning, most of which would have required him to spend time fundraising instead of actually going out to get votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. Don’t Be Afraid to Do Things Your Way\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some of the things Lee decided not to do are actually pretty common in the election process. For example, hiring consultants. In California, you can hire a political consultant to help with strategy, communications, fundraising, polling or research. For many first-time candidates, having a political consultant with experience and expertise can be an invaluable resource in navigating elections, although pricey. Lee passed on getting a consultant because it was a cost-saver and he says he already knew his strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the high cost of running for office there is a lot of money that needs to be raised to break even. But, that also changes the mindset and focus of the campaign in Lee’s opinion. “Consultants would have told me to do otherwise,” he said. “To this day, I still don’t have any consultants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest surprise for Lee was that his strategy and methods worked. He was competing against nine total people who had been in politics longer than he was alive, Lee had no elected title, was not well known, and he was not rich. “I don’t have any of these advantages. I just went out there every day with my team and we talked to people and we shared progressive values and we weren’t shy about saying the things that we wanted to do,” he said. “It’s translated to the things we are doing in office now. We’re doing exactly what I said I would do. And I think there’s a lot of people in my community who are really heartened by that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. 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These features include change-makers who have learned how to get involved locally and who are now sharing their step-by-step guide with you.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11881670\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/How-To-Headers-800x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/How-To-Headers-800x200.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/How-To-Headers-1020x255.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/How-To-Headers-160x40.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/How-To-Headers-1536x384.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/How-To-Headers.png 1584w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2016 presidential election motivated many to get involved in politics, as seen through a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/26/927803214/62-million-and-counting-americans-are-breaking-early-voting-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">higher voter turnout\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-women-than-ever-are-running-for-office-but-are-they-winning-their-primaries/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more women than ever running for office\u003c/a>. Social inequalities were made visible during the pandemic, and specifically, the ongoing deaths of Black Americans at the hands of police propelled people to the streets. It marked the summer of 2020 as the biggest protest for racial justice in a generation, and the Bay Area was no exception. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821834/bay-area-protests-over-death-of-george-floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Throughout the region\u003c/a>, specifically in downtown Oakland and San Jose, a number of young queer people of color decided to run for office in the cities they called home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them was Alex Lee. Right before the pandemic, Lee, Bay Area born and raised, moved back home with his parents in San Jose. He had been in Sacramento working for \u003ca href=\"https://sd27.senate.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state Sen. Henry Stern\u003c/a> crafting public safety, education, housing and senior-related legislation. Still, Lee felt disconnected from his neighbors. Then, Assemblymember Kansen Chu \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/assemblymember-kansen-chu-to-leave-legislature-run-for-county-supervisor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced\u003c/a> in 2019 that he would not be seek reelection for the 25th Assembly District that’s made up of parts of Alameda and Santa Clara counties. Lee decided to run for office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thinking ahead, he decided to take on the role of field representative for Silicon Valley Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://a28.asmdc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Low\u003c/a>, so that he would be ready to run for office. Lee believes the pandemic showed how government can be effective, a direct tool in improving people’s lives, but it needed to be improved and modernized. When Lee told his parents of his future plans, they said he was young enough to go for it. “I could literally restart my life four times and still be the age of my current surviving grandma,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2020, Lee won his race for state Assembly and became the youngest state legislator in almost a century, representing the 25th Assembly District. He’s also the first openly bisexual state legislator in California history. While there are many ways to run for office, Lee’s journey and tips highlight his unique experience of running for office during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC7907343389&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is now serving in Sacramento. 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"content": "\u003cp>Health officials in seven Bay Area counties on Friday\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881426/wear-masks-indoors-again-even-if-youre-vaccinated-urge-bay-area-health-officials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> strongly urged all residents, regardless of vaccination status, to wear masks in public indoor spaces on Friday\u003c/a>. These counties are urging businesses to adopt masking requirements for all indoor customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though coronavirus cases have steeply declined in the last six months across the country, they're now on the rise — likely due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/17/1017075240/delta-variant-is-spreading-fast-and-new-cases-are-rising-is-time-to-mask-up-agai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the highly contagious delta variant\u003c/a>. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday that new cases were up by nearly 70% in just a week nationwide, with hospitalizations up by 36%. Statewide, new coronavirus cases saw a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/18/coronavirus-tracker-new-cases-in-california-total-23027-up-by-90-from-previous-week/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">90% increase from the previous week\u003c/a>, according to end-of-day totals on Friday. Many Bay Area counties are also seeing an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/coronavirus-map/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">uptick\u003c/a> in cases. And in Contra Costa County, cases have more than doubled in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all Bay Area counties except Napa and Solano issuing the recommendation to resume masking in public spaces indoors, KQED’s Tara Siler spoke with \u003ca href=\"https://cfar.ucsf.edu/people/monica-gandhi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Monica Gandhi\u003c/a>, infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at UCSF, about the risks and rationale behind the recent announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tara Siler: Public health officials have said vaccines are very effective against contracting serious disease or death from COVID-19. Can you explain the reasoning behind recommending that vaccinated people wear masks?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Monica Gandhi:\u003c/strong> This is actually not something that is being endorsed by the California Department of Public Health, nor does the CDC endorse the strategy because — we are really trying to stress as public health officials the effectiveness of the vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likely, the county representatives were doing this because they wanted unvaccinated people to mask. And they likely thought that this would be a way to get everyone to mask. The worry that I have about that is, we don't want to message that these vaccines aren't effective by saying that vaccinated people have to mask. It's kind of a tricky public health messaging thing to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you think it's going to be confusing to people?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is confusing. I've been watching the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/watch-live-white-house-covid-task-force-holds-news-briefing-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White House task force briefings\u003c/a> very carefully — watching the messaging on masks. This has been brought up now in the last three task force briefings. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious disease expert physician and professor of medicine, UCSF\"]'We're in a phase of this pandemic now that it's all about getting [the] unvaccinated vaccinated. I want us to think about public health messaging that strengthens what we know about the effectiveness of vaccines.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They're very clear that they really want to provide confidence in the effectiveness of the vaccines by not putting back masks for the vaccinated. They have a very clear strategy for the next phase of the U.S. pandemic response, which is focusing on areas with increasing hospitalizations and cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our main focus is getting the unvaccinated vaccinated, and that is the national strategy. So we [in the Bay Area] are doing things a little bit different than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you think this is a good idea?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am worried about the psychology of it on unvaccinated people. I also don't actually think you'll make that much of a difference in terms of cases because vaccinated people masking will not change the equation. We're in a phase of this pandemic now that it's all about getting [the] unvaccinated vaccinated. I want us to think about public health messaging that strengthens what we know about the effectiveness of vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the idea that you can't identify who's vaccinated and who's not — will unvaccinated people wear a mask?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it has put a very difficult thing on businesses. It's a fair point that unvaccinated people may not be the ones that choose to mask. But I don't think this is going to change the equation. The people getting sick are not at risk from the vaccinated. They are at risk from the other unvaccinated people. And those [transmissions] aren't happening in public spaces at stores. It's happening in private gatherings, that's where these transmissions occur. And likely passing in the store is not giving an unvaccinated person the delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Many vaccinated people in the Bay Area have been masking all along, even with reopening and cases are rising. Do we know that the more contagious delta variant is behind most of these recent cases?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don't know the answer to that question. Yes, many vaccinated people have been masking in the Bay Area. Cases are spread among the unvaccinated with the majority of our cases, hospitalizations and deaths across the United States being among the unvaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's why there's such a focus by the Biden administration on figuring out what it takes to message the community, to go door to door to help people get vaccinated. That's why I think it's unlikely to make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you think it's going to take to get more shots in arms?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday was an important White House task force briefing — which I really would encourage people to watch — because it was about disinformation and misinformation being propounded on the internet. Some of this misinformation is literally that the vaccines are dangerous. Misinformation has to be controlled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2gbF3iGgr4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, we need to get FDA approval on these vaccines. You have to sign a consent form to get a vaccine under the current process — that can be a barrier to someone when they're wondering if it is experimental. [aside tag=\"vaccine, coronavirus\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third is community-based messaging. That's what we're doing here in San Francisco. We have higher rates of the Latinx population being vaccinated than many other places, because of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11868894/latinos-urged-to-get-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wonderful work that communities have done\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourth is getting it into doctors' offices and having one-on-one conversations. I have changed seven people's minds in my own practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the final one, there are going to be mandates likely in some settings. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ever since he was a kid, Héctor Pérez has wondered about the first inhabitants of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been like a tickle in the back of my mind since a teacher of mine in middle school taught us about the Bering Strait,” Pérez says, referring to the land bridge that let people journey from Asia into Alaska \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839198/the-bay-area-during-the-ice-age-think-saber-tooth-cats-and-mammoths\">during the ice age\u003c/a>, when sea levels were lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a clear memory of the old social studies books with pictures of people with animal furs fighting the wind,” says Pérez, now an English teacher at Mountain View High School. He wants to know: “Who were the first inhabitants of this region? And what was it like for them? What happened to them? Are there any descendants left?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer to the last question is yes, although not everyone likes the term “descendants.” “Descendants is something that puts us to be a fragment of what we once were,” says Vincent Medina, an Ohlone activist and chef living in the East Bay. “We prefer to call ourselves the Ohlone people of today, and there’s many Ohlone people that are alive today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of what we now know as the Bay Area was Ohlone territory, from Vallejo down to Monterey, including San Francisco and the Peninsula. “Now within that, there’s at least 54 independent nations,” Medina says. While these groups share some things in common, they speak many different languages; Medina speaks one called Chochenyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other groups around the Bay Area include the Miwok — Coast Miwok people along the shoreline of Marin County, and Bay and Plains Miwok further up the Delta — as well as Patwin and Wappo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for where the term Ohlone comes from, Medina says there are a few explanations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes people will say that it comes from the name of one of those smaller nations I was describing on the San Francisco Peninsula, but we have another explanation for that in our family here in the East Bay. We believe it comes from the Miwok term which means ‘people of the west.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How long have people lived in the Bay Area, and what was life like then?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The record is spotty, but humans were definitely here before the last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago — and back then the place was not a windswept tundra. The weather was mild, and the low sea level meant the coast was miles further west than today. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839198/the-bay-area-during-the-ice-age-think-saber-tooth-cats-and-mammoths\">What’s now the bay was more like a lush river valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first people we know of living here probably enjoyed abundant seafood, says Kent Lightfoot, an anthropology professor at UC Berkeley with expertise in California archaeology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The earliest people we have really good archaeological records of,” Lightfoot says, “were maritime peoples, seafaring peoples who had boats and who had come down the coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11880538\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Projectile-point-sized.jpg\" alt=\"A projectile point likely made of obsidian. It could have been a spear point or arrowhead.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Projectile-point-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Projectile-point-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Projectile-point-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Projectile-point-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Projectile-point-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A projectile point likely made of obsidian. It could have been a spear point or arrowhead. \u003ccite>(Dana Davis Photoraphy/Phoebe Apperson Museum of Anthropology/Courtesy California Institute for Community, Art & Nature)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s possible another wave of migrants came in to hunt the mammoths and mastodons that roamed the Bay Area around this time. While Lightfoot says there’s not great evidence of this, it wouldn’t surprise him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next several thousand years, sea levels rose. The ice age megafauna vanished, but a tremendous array of wildlife remained — including the now-extinct California grizzly bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this period, the people here came to use bows and arrows rather than spears to hunt animals like elk. And they learned to process acorns into a kind of porridge. They also used grass-like tule reeds for everything from building structures and boats to crafting baskets and nets for fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11881059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Abalone-artifact-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Abalone artifact\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Abalone-artifact-cropped.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Abalone-artifact-cropped-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Abalone-artifact-cropped-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Abalone-artifact-cropped-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Abalone-artifact-cropped-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An abalone artifact likely used as an ornament. \u003ccite>(Dana Davis Photography/Phoebe Apperson Museum of Anthropology/Couresty California Institute for Community, Art & Nature)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Malcolm Margolin, an \u003ca href=\"https://heydaybooks.com/authors/malcolm-margolin/\">author and publisher\u003c/a> who has written extensively about the native peoples of California, says the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704679/there-were-once-more-than-425-shellmounds-in-the-bay-area-where-did-they-go\">shellmounds that can still be found in the region\u003c/a> are a hallmark from this age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time the first Europeans came, the bay had about 400 shellmounds around it. These shellmounds were accumulations of earth, of shells, of ashes from fires, of refuse and burials,” Margolin says. Some were around 300 feet in diameter and three stories high and would’ve taken generations to build up — long enough for their use to gradually shift with time. Perhaps some generations used them as ritual places, others for dwelling, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, many shellmounds have become the sites of shopping centers and parking lots. And there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/03/22/ohlones-lisjan-protest-berkeley-ca-fence-around-ancestral-land\">ongoing legal disputes and protests\u003c/a> over this type of development. Perhaps the best surviving example of a shellmound is in Coyote Hills Regional Park, but that one is only open to the public on certain occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What happened to the people here?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s a sad but familiar story: Waves of colonizers came to the Bay Area and killed nearly all the native people living here. Survivors had to give up their land and their way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margolin calls the genocide “an attempt to erase people,” saying, “I think Europeans had no use for Indians. I think they had a sense of them as inferior beings. What they saw were people that didn’t have the right clothes, that didn’t have the right manners. They didn’t have the right religion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The devastation came in three waves, starting about 250 years ago with the Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conquest was as cruel as it could be. Indians were drawn into the missions and many of them died either from disease or were killed outright,” Margolin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, during the era of Mexican control that followed, native people were cut loose from the missions. With nowhere to return to, many were forced to work on ranches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico gave up rights to California at the end of the Mexican-American War. A few months after California became a state in 1850, the first governor, Peter Hardeman Burnett, \u003ca href=\"https://www.csus.edu/college/education/engagement/_internal/_documents/indian_early_california_laws_and_policies_related_to_california_indians.pdf\">said to expect a “war of extermination” against native people.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our family experienced a lot of hardships that came with colonization — too many hardships to ever really list,” Vincent Medina says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through it all, Indigenous people like Medina’s great-grandmother quietly preserved and passed on the traditions of their ancestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 962px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11880541\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/8-Vincent.png\" alt=\"A young Vincent Medina with his great-grandmother, Mary Archuleta.\" width=\"962\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/8-Vincent.png 962w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/8-Vincent-800x798.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/8-Vincent-160x160.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Vincent Medina with his great-grandmother, Mary Archuleta. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Vincent Medina)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When not everything could be carried on, one way that our family found to keep these things alive was through documenting them,” Medina said. His great-grandmother and other elders wrote thousands of pages on history, language, religion and foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My great-grandmother survived that time,” Medina said. She got through it, and she still kept our culture close, passing on as much as she could to everybody in our family around her. And through those efforts that’s how so many of us, including myself, grew up empowered with our culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina says at one point not a single person he knew spoke Chochenyo. But over the past several years, he and others have worked to resuscitate the language, using the documentation their elders left behind as a guide. Now a whole community is conversant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That shows healing right there in action,” Medina says. “That shows how we can be able to have things back again that we might have not had a short time ago, but that we were always meant to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina works to make Indigenous culture more visible in other ways, too. He runs \u003ca href=\"https://www.makamham.com/cafeohlone\">Cafe Ohlone\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899524/cafe-ohlone-restaurant-hearst-museum-berkeley-opening\">recently relocated to UC Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology\u003c/a> — where the menu features shellfish, acorn soup and even acorn-flour brownies — a hit with kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s one person among many working to revive traditional dance, basketry and even making boats of tule reeds. He sees this as carrying forward a story that began a very, very long time ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Knowing that we’re Indigenous here, that we were created here, it gives us that responsibility and that obligation to keep these teachings close with a lot of integrity and a lot of deep care and love,” Medina says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ever since he was a kid, Héctor Pérez has wondered about the first inhabitants of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been like a tickle in the back of my mind since a teacher of mine in middle school taught us about the Bering Strait,” Pérez says, referring to the land bridge that let people journey from Asia into Alaska \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839198/the-bay-area-during-the-ice-age-think-saber-tooth-cats-and-mammoths\">during the ice age\u003c/a>, when sea levels were lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a clear memory of the old social studies books with pictures of people with animal furs fighting the wind,” says Pérez, now an English teacher at Mountain View High School. He wants to know: “Who were the first inhabitants of this region? And what was it like for them? What happened to them? Are there any descendants left?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer to the last question is yes, although not everyone likes the term “descendants.” “Descendants is something that puts us to be a fragment of what we once were,” says Vincent Medina, an Ohlone activist and chef living in the East Bay. “We prefer to call ourselves the Ohlone people of today, and there’s many Ohlone people that are alive today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of what we now know as the Bay Area was Ohlone territory, from Vallejo down to Monterey, including San Francisco and the Peninsula. “Now within that, there’s at least 54 independent nations,” Medina says. While these groups share some things in common, they speak many different languages; Medina speaks one called Chochenyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other groups around the Bay Area include the Miwok — Coast Miwok people along the shoreline of Marin County, and Bay and Plains Miwok further up the Delta — as well as Patwin and Wappo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for where the term Ohlone comes from, Medina says there are a few explanations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes people will say that it comes from the name of one of those smaller nations I was describing on the San Francisco Peninsula, but we have another explanation for that in our family here in the East Bay. We believe it comes from the Miwok term which means ‘people of the west.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How long have people lived in the Bay Area, and what was life like then?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The record is spotty, but humans were definitely here before the last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago — and back then the place was not a windswept tundra. The weather was mild, and the low sea level meant the coast was miles further west than today. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839198/the-bay-area-during-the-ice-age-think-saber-tooth-cats-and-mammoths\">What’s now the bay was more like a lush river valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first people we know of living here probably enjoyed abundant seafood, says Kent Lightfoot, an anthropology professor at UC Berkeley with expertise in California archaeology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The earliest people we have really good archaeological records of,” Lightfoot says, “were maritime peoples, seafaring peoples who had boats and who had come down the coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11880538\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Projectile-point-sized.jpg\" alt=\"A projectile point likely made of obsidian. It could have been a spear point or arrowhead.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Projectile-point-sized.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Projectile-point-sized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Projectile-point-sized-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Projectile-point-sized-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Projectile-point-sized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A projectile point likely made of obsidian. It could have been a spear point or arrowhead. \u003ccite>(Dana Davis Photoraphy/Phoebe Apperson Museum of Anthropology/Courtesy California Institute for Community, Art & Nature)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s possible another wave of migrants came in to hunt the mammoths and mastodons that roamed the Bay Area around this time. While Lightfoot says there’s not great evidence of this, it wouldn’t surprise him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next several thousand years, sea levels rose. The ice age megafauna vanished, but a tremendous array of wildlife remained — including the now-extinct California grizzly bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this period, the people here came to use bows and arrows rather than spears to hunt animals like elk. And they learned to process acorns into a kind of porridge. They also used grass-like tule reeds for everything from building structures and boats to crafting baskets and nets for fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11881059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Abalone-artifact-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Abalone artifact\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Abalone-artifact-cropped.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Abalone-artifact-cropped-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Abalone-artifact-cropped-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Abalone-artifact-cropped-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Abalone-artifact-cropped-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An abalone artifact likely used as an ornament. \u003ccite>(Dana Davis Photography/Phoebe Apperson Museum of Anthropology/Couresty California Institute for Community, Art & Nature)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Malcolm Margolin, an \u003ca href=\"https://heydaybooks.com/authors/malcolm-margolin/\">author and publisher\u003c/a> who has written extensively about the native peoples of California, says the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704679/there-were-once-more-than-425-shellmounds-in-the-bay-area-where-did-they-go\">shellmounds that can still be found in the region\u003c/a> are a hallmark from this age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time the first Europeans came, the bay had about 400 shellmounds around it. These shellmounds were accumulations of earth, of shells, of ashes from fires, of refuse and burials,” Margolin says. Some were around 300 feet in diameter and three stories high and would’ve taken generations to build up — long enough for their use to gradually shift with time. Perhaps some generations used them as ritual places, others for dwelling, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, many shellmounds have become the sites of shopping centers and parking lots. And there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/03/22/ohlones-lisjan-protest-berkeley-ca-fence-around-ancestral-land\">ongoing legal disputes and protests\u003c/a> over this type of development. Perhaps the best surviving example of a shellmound is in Coyote Hills Regional Park, but that one is only open to the public on certain occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What happened to the people here?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s a sad but familiar story: Waves of colonizers came to the Bay Area and killed nearly all the native people living here. Survivors had to give up their land and their way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margolin calls the genocide “an attempt to erase people,” saying, “I think Europeans had no use for Indians. I think they had a sense of them as inferior beings. What they saw were people that didn’t have the right clothes, that didn’t have the right manners. They didn’t have the right religion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The devastation came in three waves, starting about 250 years ago with the Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conquest was as cruel as it could be. Indians were drawn into the missions and many of them died either from disease or were killed outright,” Margolin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, during the era of Mexican control that followed, native people were cut loose from the missions. With nowhere to return to, many were forced to work on ranches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico gave up rights to California at the end of the Mexican-American War. A few months after California became a state in 1850, the first governor, Peter Hardeman Burnett, \u003ca href=\"https://www.csus.edu/college/education/engagement/_internal/_documents/indian_early_california_laws_and_policies_related_to_california_indians.pdf\">said to expect a “war of extermination” against native people.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our family experienced a lot of hardships that came with colonization — too many hardships to ever really list,” Vincent Medina says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through it all, Indigenous people like Medina’s great-grandmother quietly preserved and passed on the traditions of their ancestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 962px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11880541\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/8-Vincent.png\" alt=\"A young Vincent Medina with his great-grandmother, Mary Archuleta.\" width=\"962\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/8-Vincent.png 962w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/8-Vincent-800x798.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/8-Vincent-160x160.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Vincent Medina with his great-grandmother, Mary Archuleta. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Vincent Medina)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When not everything could be carried on, one way that our family found to keep these things alive was through documenting them,” Medina said. His great-grandmother and other elders wrote thousands of pages on history, language, religion and foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My great-grandmother survived that time,” Medina said. She got through it, and she still kept our culture close, passing on as much as she could to everybody in our family around her. And through those efforts that’s how so many of us, including myself, grew up empowered with our culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina says at one point not a single person he knew spoke Chochenyo. But over the past several years, he and others have worked to resuscitate the language, using the documentation their elders left behind as a guide. Now a whole community is conversant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That shows healing right there in action,” Medina says. “That shows how we can be able to have things back again that we might have not had a short time ago, but that we were always meant to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina works to make Indigenous culture more visible in other ways, too. 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"content": "\u003cp>A Bay Area family member of slain environmental and Indigenous rights defender Berta Cáceres is calling on the federal government to stop U.S. funding of Honduran military and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of threats, Cáceres was assassinated in her hometown of La Esperanza in western Honduras in 2016. The renowned environmentalist and Goldman Environmental Prize \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/560202/goldman-environmental-prize-winner-murdered-in-honduras\">winner\u003c/a> had been leading a campaign to stop the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque River, a river considered sacred by the Lenca people. In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/world/americas/honduras-bertha-caceres.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seven men hired as hitmen were convicted in her murder\u003c/a> – but until this month no one accused of masterminding her killing had been held accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 5, the former head of Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. (DESA), the company overseeing the dam project Cáceres fought against, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-honduras-3c44bd8b698092aaabb99b94605d311c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was found guilty of participating in her killing\u003c/a>. Prosecutors argued Roberto David Castillo – who was trained in the U.S. and was a former member of the Honduran army during a coup in 2009 – had masterminded Cáceres' murder. He was convicted of being a co-conspirator. The court will determine his sentence, which could be between 24 and 30 years, on Aug. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_560202]“It is a victory. I can't deny that,” Silvio Carrillo, Cáceres' Oakland-based nephew, told KQED. “But, it doesn't feel like a victory. It is one small drop in the sea of corruption in Honduras and we have a long way to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Twitter the day of the ruling he added: \"Berta didn't die, she multiplied.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/angryburrito/status/1412118957578854409\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.globalwitness.org/en/blog/five-years-since-berta-c%C3%A1ceres-assassination-honduran-defenders-face-greater-danger-than-ever/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Witness\u003c/a> reported at least 40 environmental activists have been murdered in Honduras since Cáceres' death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is literally the first time a case like this has been successful — successful in that someone was charged. That is incredibly sad,” Carrillo said. He grew up in Washington, D.C., and is now an Oakland-based journalist who has written op-eds for The New York Times on his \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/opinion/an-idealists-martyrdom-fails-to-move-honduras.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aunt\u003c/a>, as well as on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/opinion/america-honduras-hernandez-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">politics in Honduras\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suyapa Portillo Villeda, a Honduran historian and associate professor at Pitzer College in Southern California, attributes the victory of the dam company executive's conviction to organizers on the ground. She credits COPINH (the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras), an organization Cáceres started in 1993, for their persistence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really a testament to the organizing,\" Portillo Villeda said, also referencing the collective of organizations that camped out in front of the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Silvio Carrillo, nephew of slain Indigenous rights defender Berta Cáceres\"]'This situation is closer than you think ... And the reason for that is because it's our money, it's our tax dollars paid to train Honduran police and the Honduran military.'[/pullquote]Since a 2009 coup, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/07/crisis-of-honduras-democracy-has-roots-in-us-tacit-support-for-2009-coup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">corruption in Honduras has continued to worsen\u003c/a>. Carrillo, who was born in the U.S. and grew up spending many summers in Honduras, recalled the dangers his aunt faced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They tried to plant a gun on her ... At one point she had to flee — this was just a part of her life,\" he said. Carrillo also recalled traveling with her one night and said it was \"terrifying\" having to take two or three taxi cabs in different directions just to make sure she wasn't being followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, after Cáceres was murdered, Carrillo spent time in the halls of the U.S. Capitol lobbying for accountability. The network that Cáceres had established throughout her long years of advocacy allowed him access to meet with members of Congress and their staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This situation is closer than you think,\" Carrillo said, in reference to why the assassination of an environmental activist in Honduras should matter to those living in the U.S. \"And the reason for that is because it's our money, it's our tax dollars paid to train Honduran police and the Honduran military.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the lobbying Carrillo began over five years ago may finally be paying off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companion legislation being considered in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2716/text?\">House\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/388/all-info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate\u003c/a> would suspend support for the Honduran government until corruption and human rights abuses are no longer systemic. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1574?\">separate bill\u003c/a> in the House, the \"Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act,\" is a continuation of what Carrillo was advocating for in 2016 and would stop U.S. assistance to the Honduran police or military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Withdrawing funding from the military speaks to Cáceres' legacy, Pitzer College's Portillo Villeda said. She remembers being tear-gassed alongside Cáceres in 2011 while protesting at an airbase. \"Berta was of the generation that understood profoundly what militarization did. The bill really speaks to her legacy and efforts to end militarization and funding for the military,\" Portillo Villeda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corruption and violence in Honduras is also directly related to why Hondurans make up a large number of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many people have to leave because they can't eat, they can't feed their children, they can't get educated, they can't get health care,\" Carrillo said. \"And so they come here to the U.S.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1309px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50218_GettyImages-1233820169-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1309\" height=\"704\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11881108\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50218_GettyImages-1233820169-qut.jpg 1309w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50218_GettyImages-1233820169-qut-800x430.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50218_GettyImages-1233820169-qut-1020x549.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50218_GettyImages-1233820169-qut-160x86.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1309px) 100vw, 1309px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Indigenous woman lights a candle after Roberto David Castillo, president of Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. (DESA), was found guilty in the murder of Honduran environmentalist and Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, in Tegucigalpa on July 5, 2021. \u003ccite>(ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Honduras has one of the highest homicide rates in the region, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/why-central-american-migrants-are-arriving-us-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Council on Foreign Relations\u003c/a>. The president's brother is \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56589088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">currently in prison\u003c/a> in the U.S. for drug trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When U.S. Vice President Harris took a recent trip to Central America and the U.S.-Mexico border, she notably did not stop in Honduras. The Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/13/biden-harris-central-america-policy-migration-corruption\">appears to be walking a thin line\u003c/a> to avoid showing overt support for the government, while continuing to provide aid to Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think [the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act] is really important,\" Portillo Villeda said. But she added it's also important to scrutinize the federal aid money earmarked for Honduras with the goal of helping stem migration from that country to the U.S. \"We're not going to see what happens with that money,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11703189,news_11738062 label='Related Coverage']For Carrillo, as a journalist thinking through the legacy of his aunt's story, he'd like to make sure it is preserved and shared, perhaps as a documentary. “I have this trove of video, and I'm just waiting for the right time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's hoping to produce something in the near future, but he also knows that it will take time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want this project, whatever it turns out to be — to not just reflect her legacy, but also to reflect what we can accomplish because we lost her,” he said. His plan is to create something that can show people that not only is it worth the fight, but that \"change can come.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portillo Villeda sees the most recent court win as a continuation of Cáceres' work. She said some people thought the Indigenous women were crazy for thinking they could stop a huge corporation when they protested the hydroelectric dam, \"crazy for thinking that people would care about the environment,\" Portillo Villeda said. But Cáceres \"intentionally gave young women the possibility to become activists, to become organizers — the idea that they could do the impossible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The network that Cáceres had established throughout her long years of advocacy allowed him access to meet with members of Congress and their staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This situation is closer than you think,\" Carrillo said, in reference to why the assassination of an environmental activist in Honduras should matter to those living in the U.S. \"And the reason for that is because it's our money, it's our tax dollars paid to train Honduran police and the Honduran military.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the lobbying Carrillo began over five years ago may finally be paying off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companion legislation being considered in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2716/text?\">House\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/388/all-info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate\u003c/a> would suspend support for the Honduran government until corruption and human rights abuses are no longer systemic. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1574?\">separate bill\u003c/a> in the House, the \"Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act,\" is a continuation of what Carrillo was advocating for in 2016 and would stop U.S. assistance to the Honduran police or military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Withdrawing funding from the military speaks to Cáceres' legacy, Pitzer College's Portillo Villeda said. She remembers being tear-gassed alongside Cáceres in 2011 while protesting at an airbase. \"Berta was of the generation that understood profoundly what militarization did. The bill really speaks to her legacy and efforts to end militarization and funding for the military,\" Portillo Villeda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corruption and violence in Honduras is also directly related to why Hondurans make up a large number of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many people have to leave because they can't eat, they can't feed their children, they can't get educated, they can't get health care,\" Carrillo said. \"And so they come here to the U.S.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1309px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50218_GettyImages-1233820169-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1309\" height=\"704\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11881108\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50218_GettyImages-1233820169-qut.jpg 1309w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50218_GettyImages-1233820169-qut-800x430.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50218_GettyImages-1233820169-qut-1020x549.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50218_GettyImages-1233820169-qut-160x86.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1309px) 100vw, 1309px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Indigenous woman lights a candle after Roberto David Castillo, president of Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. 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Your efforts helped keep the grid stable,” the agency wrote on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threats to the grid aren’t over yet, however. In the wake of growing wildfires and an ongoing heat wave, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Saturday to allow the use of auxiliary ship engines to relieve pressure on California’s electric grid. This is in addition to his move Friday to allow the use of other backup energy reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Sunday was expected to be relatively calm in terms of energy demands, California ISO warned demand is expected to increase again after the weekend — and asked the public to “remain vigilant” in case the state needs to conserve energy Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing the threat of wildfires to transmission lines amid a sweltering heat wave, California electricity grid operators issued a call to the public to conserve energy from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday to prevent rolling blackouts statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With temperatures rising across the state’s inland regions, California’s electric grid netted a new threat Friday night as southern Oregon’s Bootleg Fire doubled in size \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7609/\">to nearly 76,000 acres,\u003c/a> encroaching dangerously close to transmission lines used to import electricity from other states to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Elliot Mainzer, California Independent System Operator\"]‘California has a significant amount of additional capacity it needs to put into the system here in the years ahead to adapt to these changing patterns of load, and temperatures, and heat, and even the potential for extended drought.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Independent System Operator also forecast a potential shortfall of capacity due to the Bootleg Fire and issued a grid warning from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday night. That warning indicates California ISO, which operates California’s bulk electricity grid, anticipates using its electricity reserves, and allows them to request emergency assistance and emergency demand programs if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has lost access to 5,500 megawatts of power due to the fire’s impacts on a grid interconnection between California and Oregon, California ISO CEO Elliot Mainzer said in a press conference Saturday afternoon. To put that into context, during one of two rolling blackouts called last year, the loss of just 248 megawatts at a plant in the Central Valley \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842647/what-caused-augusts-rolling-blackouts-experts-say-its-still-not-totally-clear\">was the final tipping point into an emergency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a significant portion of the state’s power supply,” Mainzer said. “I really want to emphasize, we are asking a lot of consumers, but we’ve been using every tool at our disposal to keep the lights on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s statewide energy issues have been exacerbated by wildfires unlike last year, when California ISO admitted that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878348/during-rolling-blackouts-last-summer-california-kept-exporting-power-out-of-state-theres-still-no-permanent-fix\">it was exporting energy to other states as demand peaked in California\u003c/a>. That prompted ISO to call the first rolling blackouts in 19 years on two evenings in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to free up additional energy resources quickly, Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Extreme-Heat-Proc-7-8-21.pdf\"> signed an emergency proclamation Friday\u003c/a> to suspend some permitting requirements that would allow backup power generation to be used to alleviate demands on the energy grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/California_ISO/status/1413951294151303168\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Californians deal with triple-digit heat Saturday, the National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for much of the interior region of Northern California that will last through tomorrow night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NWS meteorologist Brayden Murdock said it’s important for people to be thinking ahead to lower electricity use as much as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only are we dealing with hazardous heat during the day, but pretty warm nights are probably leading to people putting extra stress on their systems to get rid of that heat,” Murdock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California ISO said data showed demand for electricity did drop Friday after they issued a flex alert that day, showing Californians were conserving in the face of a growing heat wave. But the Bootleg Fire’s growth posed an “imminent threat” to transmission lines between California and Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lilyjamali/status/1413952288872296448\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those transmission lines also import power into another electric grid that helps power Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bootleg Fire may not be contained for another two weeks, according to California ISO. California dispatched two strike teams with wildland engines to help Oregon officials battle the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two weeks isn’t the only span of time to worry about. Mainzer, the California ISO CEO, told the press Saturday that California needs to think ahead about how to shore up its energy in the new reality of ever-growing wildfires and heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think all of us recognize,” he said, “that California has a significant amount of additional capacity it needs to put into the system here in the years ahead to adapt to these changing patterns of load, and temperatures, and heat, and even the potential for extended drought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get away from the edge (capacity-wise) where we are now, but it will take some time,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfire season has seen challenges arise across the state, as the Beckwourth Complex of fires in California’s northeast saw nearly 200 square miles of the Plumas National Forest closed, and forced evacuations across state lines into Nevada on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Beckwourth Complex, which began as two lightning-caused fires in Plumas National Forest, showed “extreme behavior,” fire information officer Lisa Cox said Friday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAPublicHealth/status/1413211388982579201\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hot rising air formed a gigantic, smoky pyrocumulus cloud that reached thousands of feet high and created its own lightning, Cox said. And spot fires caused by embers leapt up to a mile ahead of the northeastern flank — too far for firefighters to safely battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winds up to about 20 mph on ridge tops were funneling flames up draws and canyons full of dry fuel, where “it can actually pick up speed,” Cox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 1,000 firefighters were aided by aircraft but the blaze was expected to continue leaping through trees and chaparral that already are bone-dry because of low humidity and the heat wave forecaste to continue through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Emily Hung and The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ylvie Fraley describes the home she lived in with her mother and younger sister in the Santa Cruz Mountains community of Bonny Doon as “incredibly unique.” Her mom, Leigh-Anne Lehrman said “it was built by hippies, for sure.” Not only was it a beautiful home, but it had become a community gathering space — the place every high school after-prom party was hosted, every graduation, and every birthday, even special occasions for those outside their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of Aug. 15, 2020, the power went out at Fraley’s home as rare \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833586/photos-rare-august-thunderstorm-sees-lightning-streak-across-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lightning storms\u003c/a> approached. Then 18 years old, she was home with her younger sister while her mom stayed in Woodside undergoing cancer treatment. Fraley, bored without electricity, busied herself by walking through the house collecting items, just in case they would need to leave — if the lightning storms ignited a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only reason we took anything was because I was bored and had nothing else to do except to walk through the house and put stuff in a trash bag,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family is familiar with fire — in 2017, Fraley’s grandfather lost his North Bay home in the deadly and massively destructive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire/\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a>. Still, when Fraley and her sister left in the early hours of Aug. 16, after her mom sent a neighbor to look for them, they fully expected to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time many people woke up on Aug. 16, the widespread lightning storms had ignited numerous fires in and around the Santa Cruz Mountains, blazes that would later become known as the CZU Lightning Complex fires. In a March 2021 community meeting, Cal Fire said the CZU fires were the largest in the recorded history of Santa Cruz County. They killed one person, forced the evacuation of over 77,000 people in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties and destroyed 911 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after the CZU fires began, just a few miles away from Fraley’s home in the San Lorenzo Valley, Antoñia Bradford rushed around her house gathering her kids and dogs while frantically texting her husband who was in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I packed up my five kids and my two dogs and grabbed my father’s ashes and some paintings,” Bradford said, but, “the way that we were reading things, the fire was moving away from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of days later, Bradford’s home – and Fraley’s – had been transformed into rubble and ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘I Can’t Abandon This Community’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over 10 months after the CZU fires, many are still working to process and rebuild their lives — both physically and emotionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradford, who has lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains for 13 years and appreciates how down-to-earth people are, is still mourning the losses. But she is committed to staying and rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t even express how challenging it is. The grief is so deep,” she said. “I can’t abandon this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Leigh-Anne Lehrman, CZU fires survivor\"]‘Of all the things we lost in 2020, and there were a lot of them, the thing that I miss the most — that I don’t think I’ll ever, ever replicate in my life — is our community up there.’[/pullquote]A few days before KQED spoke to her, Bradford said a neighbor had dropped off soup for her — someone she had never met before. “The people here are amazing, and I feel like I would be really hard pressed to find that anywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leigh-Anne Lehrman, Fraley’s mom, ranked the loss of community as the one she feels most keenly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of all the things we lost in 2020, and there were a lot of them, the thing that I miss the most — that I don’t think I’ll ever, ever replicate in my life — is our community up there,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Priced Out\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fraley and Lehrman, who were renters, said they were priced out after losing their home to the CZU fires. Lehrman said they had a hard time finding a place, even though they had financial assistance in the form of insurance money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rent’s just shot up,” she said, adding that they were lucky to have found the place they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehrman said it was the 40th place she contacted before someone responded. If they didn’t have the insurance money, she said there’s no way they would be able to afford it. Since the fire, she’s been renting a place in Aptos for $6,500 per month. The Bonny Doon home she rented before it burned cost $3,000 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just the cost of rent that’s kept her away from her close-knit community. Lehrman said she hasn’t been back to the neighborhood since the fires for personal reasons. “I’ve chosen not to ever go back up there,” she said. She doesn’t want to ruin the memories she has.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Gone in an Instant’ – Loss of Home, and Income\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For others, the fires took away not only a home, but a source of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am 76 years old, disabled, a lung cancer survivor, and I will probably end up living in a trailer,” said CZU fires survivor Catherine Wilson. She has owned her home since she was 23. “I worked my whole life to have the property I had in Boulder Creek,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Catherine Wilson, CZU fires survivor\"]‘I believe that people who can’t afford to rebuild will sell for what they can get, and this county will become a county of rich people.’[/pullquote]Wilson’s property consists of a third of an acre with an 800-square-foot one-bedroom house that she used as her own residence, and a smaller one-bedroom cabin she rented out. Both structures were completely destroyed by fire. She told KQED she had no mortgage payments and said the cabin rent basically served as her pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson had insurance for both structures – but despite receiving policy limits for both homes, she said it may not be enough to rebuild even one structure. Even if she is able to rebuild one house, she said she’ll probably have to sell because she’s lost her income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson stands on the Boulder Creek property where her home and a smaller cabin once stood, on April 9, 2021. Both were destroyed by the CZU fires last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson applied to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance, but got sent to the Small Business Administration since FEMA said she was a business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SBA then bounced her back and forth between its homeowner and business sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I qualified for $40,000 but it had to be spent only on personal property and only after I have used my insurance proceeds,” she said. “Here’s the thing: I need a house before I can buy any personal property to put into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson holds the only item she was able to recover from her home – a sword – after the CZU fires destroyed both her home and her rental cabin last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson is continuing to work on the rebuilding process, but she’s not sure if she’ll ever be able to get back to the life she had before — a secure residence she could live in, and a small income from her rental property that provided enough to live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me 50 years to get those things,” she said. “And they were gone in an instant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Challenges to Rebuilding\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wilson said there are many CZU fire survivors worse off than she is, and she worries that for many, the county approvals and regulations necessary to rebuild will prove insurmountable barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that people who can’t afford to rebuild will sell for what they can get, and this county will become a county of rich people,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the challenging topography of the Santa Cruz Mountains, many fire survivors must undergo a geologic survey of their properties – conducted by the county – before they can rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire-burned soil doesn’t hold together and doesn’t cling to the hillside,” said Kirsten Flynn, a fire survivor who has been working to rebuild a family home in Boulder Creek that was used as a rental for the last few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Hoppin, communications manager for Santa Cruz County, echoed Flynn in describing how after a big fire, the ground is unable to absorb water and rainfall can create rivers of mud and debris flows, “which have the capability of taking out cars, houses and lives — anything in its path.” So these geologic surveys are essential to ensure the ground is ready to be rebuilt on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoppin said the risk from debris flow can be greater than the fire itself. A more in-depth explanation of debris flow can be found on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzcounty.us/FireRecovery/DebrisFlow.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">county website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Flynn and many others hoping to rebuild, the geologic surveys have delayed them from moving to the next step in the process. Depending on the complexity of a property, survey fees can add up to thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kirsten Flynn, CZU fire survivor on the complicated rebuilding process\"]‘It’s like the worst game of Chutes and Ladders you have ever played.’[/pullquote]In addition to the geologic survey, homeowners must also pass a county-conducted fire safety check to ensure the fire department would be able to safely access the building in a future emergency, in addition to an environmental health assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn said the fire safety, environmental and geologic pre-clearances cost her $1,254. But for final clearances it can cost much more. Bradford said costs can skyrocket to over $5,000 if the county requires advanced surveys by an outside geologist in addition to the county review fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s issues beyond what we can control,” Flynn said. “It’s not like just getting a plan and building something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make things slightly more complicated, the environmental health assessment is conducted by the same overburdened county department that has been handling the county’s response to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A catastrophe [the fire] occurred, on top of a global pandemic,” said Flynn. “For different reasons. The county is struggling and the fire victims are struggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to clearly track all of the labyrinthine steps she’s had to go through, Flynn created a graphic to share with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the worst game of Chutes and Ladders you have ever played,” she said, describing the nightmare process of getting all the checks needed to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 631px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11876469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7.jpeg 631w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Flow-chart-to-rebuild7-160x122.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CZU fires survivor Kirsten Flynn created this flow chart to illustrate the complexity of the rebuilding process. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kirsten Flynn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For others, like Brian and Emma Dean, who lost their Boulder Creek home to the CZU fires, the cost of materials is proving another barrier to rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Deans got insurance money and are in the process of rebuilding – but because of the significant increase in the cost of lumber (\u003ca href=\"https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/lumber-price-outlook-futures-shortage-demand-commodity-inflation-2021-6-1030537230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">up 400% at some points over the past year\u003c/a>), the insurance doesn’t cover their current rebuilding cost estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of June, Brian Dean estimated they’re short up to $300,000 – almost double the original rebuilding estimate they received. They’re waiting for lumber prices to go down before they attempt to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11873449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48497_006_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian and Emma Dean hold a photo of their house at the property in Boulder Creek on April 9, 2021, where the home stood before it was destroyed by the CZU Lighting Complex fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On top of all of this are proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/03/06/santa-cruz-community-pushes-for-answers-on-fire-regulations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draft fire safety rules from the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When finalized, those regulations could significantly impact how fire survivors across the state can rebuild. In the Santa Cruz Mountains, the regulations could result in new guidelines on how wide the region’s notoriously narrow, winding residential roads need to be in order to safely accommodate emergency vehicles – and additional costs could wind up being the responsibility of homeowners. Public comment on the draft regulations \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/04/27/coast-line-comment-period-opened-on-fire-safe-regs/\">just closed on June 22\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that the longer you wait, the more politics there will be,” Brian Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Preparing for the Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As California’s drought continues to worsen and temperatures increase over the summer, fuel moisture levels in many areas are far lower than usual for this time of year. Researchers who have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1975505/bone-dry-bay-area-forests-portend-fierce-fire-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">measuring moisture levels\u003c/a> in the forest and chaparral of the Santa Cruz Mountains said levels are lower than they’ve ever seen since they began measuring eight years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1975505 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/06/RS50133_GettyImages-610889522-qut-1020x627.jpg']In mid-April, Santa Cruz County launched a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disaster preparedness website\u003c/a>, which provides resources and information on ongoing recovery efforts, as well as how to prepare for a disaster. The site will also be a home for information on county efforts on climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Deputy Chief Nate Armstrong said San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties have taken proactive steps regarding prevention efforts. And one of the biggest local efforts is through education, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=311054987312700&ref=watch_permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online webinars\u003c/a> as well as an increase in defensible space inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bradford, who is still mourning the loss of her home while working to rebuild, she would like to see more community efforts for fire preparation. With this in mind, she started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/735503167085946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook group\u003c/a> dedicated to fire prevention in the Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re choosing to live here,” she said. “We need to be proactive about what fire safety means and really engaging with nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradford feels like the county and state have already forgotten the people that lost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of my anxiety around all of this — I’m not seeing a proactive stance taken by the state, taken by the county to protect us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Resources:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disaster preparedness website\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How to Help: \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3/About/HowYouCanHelp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Information on donating and volunteering\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/680978849295753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SLV Support Group for Home Loss-CZU Lightning Complex fires\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wilson’s property consists of a third of an acre with an 800-square-foot one-bedroom house that she used as her own residence, and a smaller one-bedroom cabin she rented out. Both structures were completely destroyed by fire. She told KQED she had no mortgage payments and said the cabin rent basically served as her pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson had insurance for both structures – but despite receiving policy limits for both homes, she said it may not be enough to rebuild even one structure. Even if she is able to rebuild one house, she said she’ll probably have to sell because she’s lost her income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48509_018_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson stands on the Boulder Creek property where her home and a smaller cabin once stood, on April 9, 2021. Both were destroyed by the CZU fires last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson applied to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance, but got sent to the Small Business Administration since FEMA said she was a business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SBA then bounced her back and forth between its homeowner and business sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I qualified for $40,000 but it had to be spent only on personal property and only after I have used my insurance proceeds,” she said. “Here’s the thing: I need a house before I can buy any personal property to put into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873445\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48498_007_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Wilson holds the only item she was able to recover from her home – a sword – after the CZU fires destroyed both her home and her rental cabin last August. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson is continuing to work on the rebuilding process, but she’s not sure if she’ll ever be able to get back to the life she had before — a secure residence she could live in, and a small income from her rental property that provided enough to live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me 50 years to get those things,” she said. “And they were gone in an instant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Challenges to Rebuilding\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wilson said there are many CZU fire survivors worse off than she is, and she worries that for many, the county approvals and regulations necessary to rebuild will prove insurmountable barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that people who can’t afford to rebuild will sell for what they can get, and this county will become a county of rich people,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the challenging topography of the Santa Cruz Mountains, many fire survivors must undergo a geologic survey of their properties – conducted by the county – before they can rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire-burned soil doesn’t hold together and doesn’t cling to the hillside,” said Kirsten Flynn, a fire survivor who has been working to rebuild a family home in Boulder Creek that was used as a rental for the last few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Hoppin, communications manager for Santa Cruz County, echoed Flynn in describing how after a big fire, the ground is unable to absorb water and rainfall can create rivers of mud and debris flows, “which have the capability of taking out cars, houses and lives — anything in its path.” So these geologic surveys are essential to ensure the ground is ready to be rebuilt on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoppin said the risk from debris flow can be greater than the fire itself. A more in-depth explanation of debris flow can be found on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzcounty.us/FireRecovery/DebrisFlow.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">county website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Flynn and many others hoping to rebuild, the geologic surveys have delayed them from moving to the next step in the process. Depending on the complexity of a property, survey fees can add up to thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In addition to the geologic survey, homeowners must also pass a county-conducted fire safety check to ensure the fire department would be able to safely access the building in a future emergency, in addition to an environmental health assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn said the fire safety, environmental and geologic pre-clearances cost her $1,254. But for final clearances it can cost much more. 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In the Santa Cruz Mountains, the regulations could result in new guidelines on how wide the region’s notoriously narrow, winding residential roads need to be in order to safely accommodate emergency vehicles – and additional costs could wind up being the responsibility of homeowners. Public comment on the draft regulations \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/04/27/coast-line-comment-period-opened-on-fire-safe-regs/\">just closed on June 22\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that the longer you wait, the more politics there will be,” Brian Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Preparing for the Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As California’s drought continues to worsen and temperatures increase over the summer, fuel moisture levels in many areas are far lower than usual for this time of year. Researchers who have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1975505/bone-dry-bay-area-forests-portend-fierce-fire-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">measuring moisture levels\u003c/a> in the forest and chaparral of the Santa Cruz Mountains said levels are lower than they’ve ever seen since they began measuring eight years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In mid-April, Santa Cruz County launched a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disaster preparedness website\u003c/a>, which provides resources and information on ongoing recovery efforts, as well as how to prepare for a disaster. The site will also be a home for information on county efforts on climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Deputy Chief Nate Armstrong said San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties have taken proactive steps regarding prevention efforts. And one of the biggest local efforts is through education, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=311054987312700&ref=watch_permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online webinars\u003c/a> as well as an increase in defensible space inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bradford, who is still mourning the loss of her home while working to rebuild, she would like to see more community efforts for fire preparation. With this in mind, she started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/735503167085946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook group\u003c/a> dedicated to fire prevention in the Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re choosing to live here,” she said. “We need to be proactive about what fire safety means and really engaging with nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradford feels like the county and state have already forgotten the people that lost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of my anxiety around all of this — I’m not seeing a proactive stance taken by the state, taken by the county to protect us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Resources:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disaster preparedness website\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How to Help: \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzcounty.us/OR3/About/HowYouCanHelp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Information on donating and volunteering\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/680978849295753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SLV Support Group for Home Loss-CZU Lightning Complex fires\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They’re talking about air pollution, and it’s personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just hurts to know that our community is slowly dying because of this air pollution,” says student Jasmine Orejudos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orejudos and her classmates live in East Oakland, a region traversed by the Interstate 880 highway. The freeway is heavily used by large trucks, bringing goods from the Port of Oakland to the rest of California and the country. The majority of those trucks are powered by diesel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-class-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Sixth grade teacher Patrick Messac teaches a science class at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience in East Oakland. 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Students are studying the health impacts of air pollution and asking questions about their own exposure. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of students at Life Academy are Latino, and studies show communities where Black and Latino people live are overburdened with pollution. Students have been making connections between the dirty air they breathe and some of the poor health they experience.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me and my granny both have asthma and sometimes we can’t even go outside to enjoy ourselves because of the diesel-burning trucks,” said student Rodney Moten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many factors \u003ca href=\"https://www.aafa.org/asthma-triggers-causes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can cause and exacerbate asthma\u003c/a>, diesel exhaust is one of them. Residents of East and West Oakland have the \u003ca href=\"https://acphd-web-media.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media/data-reports/city-county-regional/docs/maps2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest asthma hospitalization rates in Alameda County,\u003c/a> which health experts say is worsened by breathing diesel pollution wafting down from the highway and over from the nearby Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the class studied air quality issues, they came across a state law that seemed odd to them. For 70 years, large trucks have been banned on a stretch of the Interstate 580 freeway that runs along the base of the East Bay Hills in Oakland and San Leandro. As a result, large trucks nearly exclusively drive through — and pollute — neighborhoods in Oakland’s flatlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879652\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-w-student-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Sixth grade science teacher Patrick Messac helps a student with his microscope.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-w-student-1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-w-student-1920-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-w-student-1920-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-w-student-1920-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-w-student-1920-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sixth grade science teacher Patrick Messac helps a student with his microscope at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience in East Oakland. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This realization got students like Belinda Castro wondering: “Why are large polluting trucks banned on I-580, the highway that runs through the Oakland hills, but not the 880, the highway that runs through my neighborhood?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students aren’t the only ones questioning this decades-old ban. Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, who supported the ban in 1999 when he was on the Oakland City Council, said he’s changed his thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Knowing what I know now, I would make a different decision to try to phase it out,” Miley said. “We need to take steps to phase that ban out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miley was quick to add that he wants to improve air quality along I-880, but not at the expense of reducing air quality along I-580.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan called the ban “a troubling example of environmental racism.” Kaplan said the state law “should be reconsidered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro City Councilmember Fred Simon supports lifting the ban as well. He plans to reach out to local elected leaders and agencies “to build a coalition to overturn the 580 truck ban through state legislative efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But changing the law will take more than statements to the press. Others have tried, and failed, to lift the ban in its 70-year history. To actually get it done would require support from Oakland, San Leandro and state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Ban Goes All the Way Back to the 1950s\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Oakland is sandwiched between hills to the east and the San Francisco Bay to the west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I-880 traverses the flatlands and I-580 largely hugs the hills,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.brown.edu/academics/history/people/robert-self\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Self\u003c/a>, a history professor at Brown University. His book \u003ca href=\"https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691124865/american-babylon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is about the fight for civil rights after World War II. “This has been historically a representation of the class and to some extent racial divide in the East Bay,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hills were middle and upper middle class, and the flatlands were working class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck ban on 580 \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80150442/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dates back to 1951\u003c/a>, before the road was even a highway. Then it was called MacArthur Boulevard and Oakland’s City Council wanted to keep it free from truck traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“MacArthur Boulevard was what you might call the heart of middle class white Oakland in those years,” Self said. “It was a neighborhood whose opinions about the world had the ear of city hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a neighborhood that didn’t have heavy industry like the flatlands. The trucks were re-routed onto the already-constructed 880 highway (then State Route 17).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city, at the time, certainly did not believe that [flatland] neighborhoods mattered in the same way that the hill neighborhoods mattered,” Self said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Road Evolves, But the Ban Remains\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When MacArthur Boulevard became a highway in the early 1960s, the City of Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20972147/6789-cms-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continued the ban\u003c/a> on a roughly nine mile stretch of highway without significant debate. It applied to vehicles weighing more than 9,000 pounds, like big rigs, but not smaller trucks like those delivering packages on residential streets. The ban also excluded buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1484px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80173555/oakland-tribune/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Truck-ban-clipping.png\" alt=\"Oakland Tribune article from November 14, 1967\" width=\"1484\" height=\"1298\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Truck-ban-clipping.png 1484w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Truck-ban-clipping-800x700.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Truck-ban-clipping-1020x892.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Truck-ban-clipping-160x140.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1484px) 100vw, 1484px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Tribune article from November 14, 1967 on the truck ban controversy. \u003ccite>(Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1967, the ban was up for renewal, this time sparking a more intense deliberation. The possibility that trucks could barrel down both East Bay highways made people irate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80173555/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news articles\u003c/a> in the Oakland Tribune outlined the \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80175750/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">controversy\u003c/a>. Those wanting to continue the ban to keep heavy-duty trucks off 580 were led by Oakland’s then-mayor John Reading, and known as “Citizens Against Trucks on MacArthur Freeway.” They argued the area around the highway was far more residential, had more schools and hospitals, and that the road itself was curvier and hillier than 880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the loudest voices on the other side was Richard Zeller of the California Trucking Association. He argued that taxes on trucks partially funded the freeway. He also brought up equity, saying the ban was “discriminatory against the people who live near the Nimitz Freeway [ I-880 ] or must use it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879659\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80175750/oakland-tribune/#\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/MacArthur-clip.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland tribune article from July 4, 1967\" width=\"800\" height=\"1821\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/MacArthur-clip.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/MacArthur-clip-160x364.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/MacArthur-clip-675x1536.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland tribune article from July 4, 1967 discussing the truck ban on 580. \u003ccite>(Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He continued, “Are the senses of those living along the MacArthur Freeway more acute than those living along all the other freeways in the state? Are the schools and hospitals more valuable?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Transportation, Caltrans, \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/programs/traffic-operations/legal-truck-access/restrict-route-580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">studied the issue\u003c/a> in 1967 to verify that trucks could travel an alternate route instead of 580. The study looked at traffic, not impacts on health or quality of life. According to their website, the department concluded that “there was no strong evidence either to retain or to terminate the truck ban.” Caltrans recommended the ban be extended indefinitely, but with periodic reviews of “operations of the alternate routes, 238 and 880.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those reviews happened just a few times, with none occurring after 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 1990s: Asking ‘A Simple Question’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 1999, Robert Ramorino, head of Roadstar Trucking, asked what he called “a simple question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How come my trucks are banned on this stretch of 580?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramorino would later go on to become the president of the California Trucking Association. Like his predecessor, he found the ban insulting. He was paying federal highway use taxes for his trucks, which were not allowed to go on the highway running near his business. If heavy trucks were allowed on 580 it would be convenient for both his company and freight movement in general, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramorino said he and the California Trucking Association asked Caltrans to study lifting the ban on trucks on the 580 freeway. And according to their website, Caltrans officials said if they found good reasons to lift the ban — and the City of Oakland was onboard — they would recommend opening the freeway to trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That study never happened though. Residents living along 580 worried studying the issue would open the door to lifting the ban, so they put pressure on their representatives to stop the study before it started. And the Oakland City Council passed a resolution affirming they wanted to continue the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought keeping trucks off of 580 was a good thing based on traffic safety. I don’t think we were really thinking a lot about air quality at the time,” said Miley, the Alameda County supervisor, who was on the Oakland City Council in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators also wanted to stop the study and continue the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was getting dozens and dozens of calls from angry neighbors who wanted to know why this was happening,” said former Assemblymember Ellen Corbett, whose district included Alameda, San Leandro and much of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corbett was a newly-elected state assemblymember at the time. She held a meeting for constituents and Caltrans representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ended up with hundreds of people. In fact, there were so many people that came to the meeting, there was overflow out into the parking lot,” Corbett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said residents were worried about noise and road safety. Corbett said her research about the I-580 showed it wasn’t made for trucks, which Caltrans refuted: “the freeway was designed to be safe for all vehicular traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond this, however, Corbett says her constituents felt that if Oakland and San Leandro lifted the ban, they would be breaking a promise made to residents decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were actually displaced and homes were taken from people,” she said. “There was a commitment made that trucks would not be on that freeway because these neighborhoods had been destroyed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building freeways through established neighborhoods was \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3539889\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">commonplace by that time\u003c/a>. It often happened to communities of color, who didn’t have the political clout to extract promises like a ban on trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corbett said she did not hear from any of her constituents who lived or worked along the I-880 freeway. She wrote a bill to make the ban permanent. It was signed into law in 2000 by California Governor Gray Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large truck ban on an interstate is exceedingly rare, and the I-580 highway ban is the only one of its kind meant to assuage the concerns of local residents. According to the Federal Highway Authority, there are only nine such bans nationwide. Seven of those bans are due to construction or structural engineering constraints. One ban — on the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge in D.C. — was \u003ca href=\"https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/dcrevolt/part01.pdf\">ordered by President Eisenhower to keep trucks away from the Lincoln Memorial\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Considering the Truck Ban from a Health Perspective\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Residents living along the I-880 corridor in East Oakland experience some of the \u003ca href=\"https://acphd-web-media.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media/data-reports/city-county-regional/docs/maps2016.pdf\">highest rates of asthma hospitalizations in Alameda County\u003c/a>, according to the Alameda County Public Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Life Academy sixth graders learned one of the factors contributing to asthma is polluted air: The tiny particles in diesel exhaust are some of the most dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may not see this bad air, but we can breathe it,” said student Abrianna Meza. “These diesel trucks burn fuel that causes \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2013-12/documents/black-carbon-fact-sheet_0.pdf\">black carbon\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Martien, of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, agreed. “Those particles are small enough to get deep into lungs and in some cases even pass through the lung barrier to get into the bloodstream.” In Martien’s role as director of the Assessment, Inventory, & Modeling Division, he reviews how air pollution is distributed in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said diesel particles, and the chemicals attached to them, can lead to heart attacks, lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a group of diseases that make it hard to breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young people are particularly vulnerable because their lungs are still developing,” Martien said. “There’s actually been \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)60037-3/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">studies\u003c/a> where they’ve looked at young lungs of children who live near freeways and their lungs don’t ever fully develop,” as compared to kids living farther from busy freeways. Martien says living by freeways can also \u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.0901232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cause asthma\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1772px\">\u003ca href=\"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.7b00891\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11879605 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-3.32.37-PM-1.png\" alt=\"Levels of black carbon (BC), nitric oxide (NO), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in neighborhoods along Interstate 580 (purple) and Interstate 880 (red). Large trucks are not permitted on a section of I-580.\" width=\"1772\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-3.32.37-PM-1.png 1772w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-3.32.37-PM-1-800x585.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-3.32.37-PM-1-1020x746.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-3.32.37-PM-1-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-3.32.37-PM-1-1536x1123.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1772px) 100vw, 1772px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Levels of black carbon (BC), nitric oxide (NO), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in neighborhoods along Interstate 580 (purple) and Interstate 880 (red). Large trucks are not permitted on a section of I-580. \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy Environmental Defense Fund)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.7b00891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collaborative project\u003c/a> by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/airqualitymaps/oakland/tale-two-freeways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environmental Defense Fund,\u003c/a> a technology company \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclima.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aclima\u003c/a>, Google Street View and The University of Texas at Austin found that concentrations of harmful pollutants from diesel exhaust were significantly higher in neighborhoods along 880 than those along 580. Black carbon concentrations were roughly 80% higher, nitrogen dioxide concentrations were 60% higher, and nitric oxide were more than double.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What a Truck Ban Means for Equity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Historian Robert Self said what’s happened with the 580 truck ban is the definition of structural racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People can make decisions that don’t on their face, seem as if they’re motivated by racial animosity but have profound downstream racial effects,” Self said. “Any individual person can make a decision within that system that appears entirely neutral, and yet it’s got massive racial impacts and effects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Scott, an East Oakland community organizer with the environmental justice group \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbecal.org/\">Communities for a Better Environment\u003c/a>, agreed. She said she’s talked with people across East Oakland about whether they’d want to push back on the 580 truck ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks said, ‘We don’t want to put that on anybody else because it’s horrible,'” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Scott thinks if East Oakland residents don’t push back against policies like this one it hides the problem. Truck emissions are just one example of the outsized pollution burden her community bears, she said. She thinks it’s time for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to go beyond, ‘Oh, that was maybe a bad decision,'” Scott said. “How do we undo all those bad decisions with all the things that we know now? How do we fix it so that people are sharing burdens? That’s solidarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial/video/6987554195729583365\" data-video-id=\"6987554195729583365\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@kqedofficial\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@kqedofficial\u003c/a>We explain how a truck policy affects POC in East and West parts of Oakland. \u003ca title=\"racismawareness\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/racismawareness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#racismawareness\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"oaklandca\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/oaklandca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#oaklandca\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"socialjustice\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/socialjustice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#socialjustice\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"environmental\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/environmental\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#environmental\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"fyp\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#fyp\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"bayarea\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/bayarea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#bayarea\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - kqed\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-6987558479233846022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – kqed\u003c/a>\n\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Happens Now\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The sixth grade students at Life Academy have plenty of ideas to improve air quality along their highway, from electrifying trucks to planting more trees in the community, to distributing free air purifiers to people living in heavily polluted areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials have some of the same ideas. Last summer, the California Air Resources Board announced a rule \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/california-takes-bold-step-reduce-truck-pollution#:~:text=SACRAMENTO%20%E2%80%93%20Today%2C%20the%20California%20Air,California%20will%20be%20zero%2Demission.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">requiring truck manufacturers to transition from diesel to electric\u003c/a> starting in 2024. These regulations say by 2045 every new truck sold in California will be zero-emission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Scott, of Communities for a Better Environment, wants to take things further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lift that ban,” she said. “I know people are not going to like it, but it’s such a racist policy. Lift the ban!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students are pushing for one more thing, something community advocates have been demanding for decades: a study of the ban’s health effects. And there has been some movement on that front. Bay Area air district officials said in an email to KQED they are committed to studying health impacts of the 580 truck ban, “probably in the 2022-2023 time frame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A handful of kids sit in teacher Patrick Messac’s sixth grade classroom at \u003ca href=\"https://lifeacademyoak.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Life Academy of Health and Bioscience\u003c/a> in East Oakland. They’re surrounded by colorful wall displays of human anatomy, moon cycles, and books categorized by scientific topics. Then there are the signs of the pandemic: one kid at each table, each distanced from their neighbors, air filters and stacks of unused chairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairs are for the rest of the class, who are at home, zooming into the discussion instead. While this makes the conversation stop-and-go, the students are focused. They’re talking about air pollution, and it’s personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just hurts to know that our community is slowly dying because of this air pollution,” says student Jasmine Orejudos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orejudos and her classmates live in East Oakland, a region traversed by the Interstate 880 highway. The freeway is heavily used by large trucks, bringing goods from the Port of Oakland to the rest of California and the country. The majority of those trucks are powered by diesel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-class-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Sixth grade teacher Patrick Messac teaches a science class at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience in East Oakland. Students are studying the health impacts of air pollution and asking questions about their own exposure.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-class-1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-class-1920-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-class-1920-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-class-1920-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-class-1920-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sixth grade teacher Patrick Messac teaches a science class at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience in East Oakland. Students are studying the health impacts of air pollution and asking questions about their own exposure. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of students at Life Academy are Latino, and studies show communities where Black and Latino people live are overburdened with pollution. Students have been making connections between the dirty air they breathe and some of the poor health they experience.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me and my granny both have asthma and sometimes we can’t even go outside to enjoy ourselves because of the diesel-burning trucks,” said student Rodney Moten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many factors \u003ca href=\"https://www.aafa.org/asthma-triggers-causes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can cause and exacerbate asthma\u003c/a>, diesel exhaust is one of them. Residents of East and West Oakland have the \u003ca href=\"https://acphd-web-media.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media/data-reports/city-county-regional/docs/maps2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest asthma hospitalization rates in Alameda County,\u003c/a> which health experts say is worsened by breathing diesel pollution wafting down from the highway and over from the nearby Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the class studied air quality issues, they came across a state law that seemed odd to them. For 70 years, large trucks have been banned on a stretch of the Interstate 580 freeway that runs along the base of the East Bay Hills in Oakland and San Leandro. As a result, large trucks nearly exclusively drive through — and pollute — neighborhoods in Oakland’s flatlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879652\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-w-student-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Sixth grade science teacher Patrick Messac helps a student with his microscope.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-w-student-1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-w-student-1920-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-w-student-1920-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-w-student-1920-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Messac-w-student-1920-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sixth grade science teacher Patrick Messac helps a student with his microscope at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience in East Oakland. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This realization got students like Belinda Castro wondering: “Why are large polluting trucks banned on I-580, the highway that runs through the Oakland hills, but not the 880, the highway that runs through my neighborhood?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students aren’t the only ones questioning this decades-old ban. Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, who supported the ban in 1999 when he was on the Oakland City Council, said he’s changed his thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Knowing what I know now, I would make a different decision to try to phase it out,” Miley said. “We need to take steps to phase that ban out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miley was quick to add that he wants to improve air quality along I-880, but not at the expense of reducing air quality along I-580.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan called the ban “a troubling example of environmental racism.” Kaplan said the state law “should be reconsidered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro City Councilmember Fred Simon supports lifting the ban as well. He plans to reach out to local elected leaders and agencies “to build a coalition to overturn the 580 truck ban through state legislative efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But changing the law will take more than statements to the press. Others have tried, and failed, to lift the ban in its 70-year history. To actually get it done would require support from Oakland, San Leandro and state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Ban Goes All the Way Back to the 1950s\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Oakland is sandwiched between hills to the east and the San Francisco Bay to the west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I-880 traverses the flatlands and I-580 largely hugs the hills,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.brown.edu/academics/history/people/robert-self\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Self\u003c/a>, a history professor at Brown University. His book \u003ca href=\"https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691124865/american-babylon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is about the fight for civil rights after World War II. “This has been historically a representation of the class and to some extent racial divide in the East Bay,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hills were middle and upper middle class, and the flatlands were working class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck ban on 580 \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80150442/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dates back to 1951\u003c/a>, before the road was even a highway. Then it was called MacArthur Boulevard and Oakland’s City Council wanted to keep it free from truck traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“MacArthur Boulevard was what you might call the heart of middle class white Oakland in those years,” Self said. “It was a neighborhood whose opinions about the world had the ear of city hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a neighborhood that didn’t have heavy industry like the flatlands. The trucks were re-routed onto the already-constructed 880 highway (then State Route 17).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city, at the time, certainly did not believe that [flatland] neighborhoods mattered in the same way that the hill neighborhoods mattered,” Self said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Road Evolves, But the Ban Remains\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When MacArthur Boulevard became a highway in the early 1960s, the City of Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20972147/6789-cms-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continued the ban\u003c/a> on a roughly nine mile stretch of highway without significant debate. It applied to vehicles weighing more than 9,000 pounds, like big rigs, but not smaller trucks like those delivering packages on residential streets. The ban also excluded buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1484px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80173555/oakland-tribune/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Truck-ban-clipping.png\" alt=\"Oakland Tribune article from November 14, 1967\" width=\"1484\" height=\"1298\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Truck-ban-clipping.png 1484w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Truck-ban-clipping-800x700.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Truck-ban-clipping-1020x892.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Truck-ban-clipping-160x140.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1484px) 100vw, 1484px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Tribune article from November 14, 1967 on the truck ban controversy. \u003ccite>(Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1967, the ban was up for renewal, this time sparking a more intense deliberation. The possibility that trucks could barrel down both East Bay highways made people irate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80173555/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news articles\u003c/a> in the Oakland Tribune outlined the \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80175750/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">controversy\u003c/a>. Those wanting to continue the ban to keep heavy-duty trucks off 580 were led by Oakland’s then-mayor John Reading, and known as “Citizens Against Trucks on MacArthur Freeway.” They argued the area around the highway was far more residential, had more schools and hospitals, and that the road itself was curvier and hillier than 880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the loudest voices on the other side was Richard Zeller of the California Trucking Association. He argued that taxes on trucks partially funded the freeway. He also brought up equity, saying the ban was “discriminatory against the people who live near the Nimitz Freeway [ I-880 ] or must use it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879659\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80175750/oakland-tribune/#\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/MacArthur-clip.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland tribune article from July 4, 1967\" width=\"800\" height=\"1821\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/MacArthur-clip.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/MacArthur-clip-160x364.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/MacArthur-clip-675x1536.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland tribune article from July 4, 1967 discussing the truck ban on 580. \u003ccite>(Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He continued, “Are the senses of those living along the MacArthur Freeway more acute than those living along all the other freeways in the state? Are the schools and hospitals more valuable?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Transportation, Caltrans, \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/programs/traffic-operations/legal-truck-access/restrict-route-580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">studied the issue\u003c/a> in 1967 to verify that trucks could travel an alternate route instead of 580. The study looked at traffic, not impacts on health or quality of life. According to their website, the department concluded that “there was no strong evidence either to retain or to terminate the truck ban.” Caltrans recommended the ban be extended indefinitely, but with periodic reviews of “operations of the alternate routes, 238 and 880.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those reviews happened just a few times, with none occurring after 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 1990s: Asking ‘A Simple Question’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 1999, Robert Ramorino, head of Roadstar Trucking, asked what he called “a simple question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How come my trucks are banned on this stretch of 580?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramorino would later go on to become the president of the California Trucking Association. Like his predecessor, he found the ban insulting. He was paying federal highway use taxes for his trucks, which were not allowed to go on the highway running near his business. If heavy trucks were allowed on 580 it would be convenient for both his company and freight movement in general, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramorino said he and the California Trucking Association asked Caltrans to study lifting the ban on trucks on the 580 freeway. And according to their website, Caltrans officials said if they found good reasons to lift the ban — and the City of Oakland was onboard — they would recommend opening the freeway to trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That study never happened though. Residents living along 580 worried studying the issue would open the door to lifting the ban, so they put pressure on their representatives to stop the study before it started. And the Oakland City Council passed a resolution affirming they wanted to continue the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought keeping trucks off of 580 was a good thing based on traffic safety. I don’t think we were really thinking a lot about air quality at the time,” said Miley, the Alameda County supervisor, who was on the Oakland City Council in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators also wanted to stop the study and continue the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was getting dozens and dozens of calls from angry neighbors who wanted to know why this was happening,” said former Assemblymember Ellen Corbett, whose district included Alameda, San Leandro and much of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corbett was a newly-elected state assemblymember at the time. She held a meeting for constituents and Caltrans representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ended up with hundreds of people. In fact, there were so many people that came to the meeting, there was overflow out into the parking lot,” Corbett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said residents were worried about noise and road safety. Corbett said her research about the I-580 showed it wasn’t made for trucks, which Caltrans refuted: “the freeway was designed to be safe for all vehicular traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond this, however, Corbett says her constituents felt that if Oakland and San Leandro lifted the ban, they would be breaking a promise made to residents decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were actually displaced and homes were taken from people,” she said. “There was a commitment made that trucks would not be on that freeway because these neighborhoods had been destroyed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building freeways through established neighborhoods was \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3539889\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">commonplace by that time\u003c/a>. It often happened to communities of color, who didn’t have the political clout to extract promises like a ban on trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corbett said she did not hear from any of her constituents who lived or worked along the I-880 freeway. She wrote a bill to make the ban permanent. It was signed into law in 2000 by California Governor Gray Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large truck ban on an interstate is exceedingly rare, and the I-580 highway ban is the only one of its kind meant to assuage the concerns of local residents. According to the Federal Highway Authority, there are only nine such bans nationwide. Seven of those bans are due to construction or structural engineering constraints. One ban — on the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge in D.C. — was \u003ca href=\"https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/dcrevolt/part01.pdf\">ordered by President Eisenhower to keep trucks away from the Lincoln Memorial\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Considering the Truck Ban from a Health Perspective\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Residents living along the I-880 corridor in East Oakland experience some of the \u003ca href=\"https://acphd-web-media.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media/data-reports/city-county-regional/docs/maps2016.pdf\">highest rates of asthma hospitalizations in Alameda County\u003c/a>, according to the Alameda County Public Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Life Academy sixth graders learned one of the factors contributing to asthma is polluted air: The tiny particles in diesel exhaust are some of the most dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may not see this bad air, but we can breathe it,” said student Abrianna Meza. “These diesel trucks burn fuel that causes \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2013-12/documents/black-carbon-fact-sheet_0.pdf\">black carbon\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Martien, of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, agreed. “Those particles are small enough to get deep into lungs and in some cases even pass through the lung barrier to get into the bloodstream.” In Martien’s role as director of the Assessment, Inventory, & Modeling Division, he reviews how air pollution is distributed in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said diesel particles, and the chemicals attached to them, can lead to heart attacks, lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a group of diseases that make it hard to breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young people are particularly vulnerable because their lungs are still developing,” Martien said. “There’s actually been \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)60037-3/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">studies\u003c/a> where they’ve looked at young lungs of children who live near freeways and their lungs don’t ever fully develop,” as compared to kids living farther from busy freeways. Martien says living by freeways can also \u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.0901232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cause asthma\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1772px\">\u003ca href=\"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.7b00891\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11879605 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-3.32.37-PM-1.png\" alt=\"Levels of black carbon (BC), nitric oxide (NO), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in neighborhoods along Interstate 580 (purple) and Interstate 880 (red). Large trucks are not permitted on a section of I-580.\" width=\"1772\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-3.32.37-PM-1.png 1772w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-3.32.37-PM-1-800x585.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-3.32.37-PM-1-1020x746.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-3.32.37-PM-1-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-24-at-3.32.37-PM-1-1536x1123.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1772px) 100vw, 1772px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Levels of black carbon (BC), nitric oxide (NO), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in neighborhoods along Interstate 580 (purple) and Interstate 880 (red). Large trucks are not permitted on a section of I-580. \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy Environmental Defense Fund)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.7b00891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collaborative project\u003c/a> by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/airqualitymaps/oakland/tale-two-freeways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environmental Defense Fund,\u003c/a> a technology company \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclima.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aclima\u003c/a>, Google Street View and The University of Texas at Austin found that concentrations of harmful pollutants from diesel exhaust were significantly higher in neighborhoods along 880 than those along 580. Black carbon concentrations were roughly 80% higher, nitrogen dioxide concentrations were 60% higher, and nitric oxide were more than double.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What a Truck Ban Means for Equity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Historian Robert Self said what’s happened with the 580 truck ban is the definition of structural racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People can make decisions that don’t on their face, seem as if they’re motivated by racial animosity but have profound downstream racial effects,” Self said. “Any individual person can make a decision within that system that appears entirely neutral, and yet it’s got massive racial impacts and effects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Scott, an East Oakland community organizer with the environmental justice group \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbecal.org/\">Communities for a Better Environment\u003c/a>, agreed. She said she’s talked with people across East Oakland about whether they’d want to push back on the 580 truck ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks said, ‘We don’t want to put that on anybody else because it’s horrible,'” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Scott thinks if East Oakland residents don’t push back against policies like this one it hides the problem. Truck emissions are just one example of the outsized pollution burden her community bears, she said. She thinks it’s time for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to go beyond, ‘Oh, that was maybe a bad decision,'” Scott said. “How do we undo all those bad decisions with all the things that we know now? How do we fix it so that people are sharing burdens? 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland city councilmembers redirected $18 million proposed for police spending from the mayor’s budget to alternative methods of violence prevention when the council passed a $3.8 billion budget Thursday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote came at about 5:30 p.m. following hours of public comment and discussion at a virtual meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"James Burch, policy director for the Anti Police-Terror Project\"]‘We’re talking about a police budget that is well over $300 million every year consistently and continues to increase — even this year.’[/pullquote]The cuts to police spending were made from Mayor Libby Schaaf’s proposed budget for fiscal years 2021-2023 released in May, which would have added two police academy classes to the usual four over the two-year budget cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s budget proposal was then amended by Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas and Councilmembers Carroll Fife, Dan Kalb and Noel Gallo. The amendment was what passed on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The budget passed today by the Oakland City Council makes bold investments to reimagine public safety through violence prevention and non-police strategies that I strongly support,” Schaaf said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, it also cuts 50 police officers who respond to Oaklanders’ 911 calls and enforce traffic safety,” Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50148_011_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few hundred people gathered at Lake Merritt for a vigil calling for peace on June 22, 2021, following the Juneteenth shooting that wounded seven people and left one man dead. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Six councilmembers voted in favor of the new budget, while Councilmembers Loren Taylor and Treva Reid opposed it because of concerns over an equitable distribution of city funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Taylor and Reid represent East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes come amid a historic increase in violence in the city, with at least 61 homicides so far this year — nearly all by firearms — up about 90% from a year ago, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence was palpable last weekend when gunfire killed one and wounded at least six others in a shooting near Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Armstrong reportedly said no number of officers at the lake would have prevented the tragedy and some councilmembers used that statement to bolster their argument for less spending on police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50143_006_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas speaks at Lake Merritt during a vigil calling for peace on June 22, 2021, following the Juneteenth shooting that wounded seven people and left one man dead. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Oakland residents have been demanding less spending since the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, calling on city leaders to cut the Police Department’s budget by 50% and invest that money in alternatives to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such group was the Anti Police-Terror Project. James Burch, policy director for the group, said the vote marked a tremendous victory after a six-year campaign. “And it speaks to how difficult it has been for us to gain traction and demand common sense out of the city council,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Burch highlighted that while police won’t be seeing that $18 million, it’s “a drop in the bucket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about a police budget that is well over $300 million every year consistently and continues to increase — even this year. And so it’s important that we maintain that perspective,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oakland Councilmember Loren Taylor\"]‘We are asking people to jump out of an airplane without a parachute, promising to get to them before they need it to land.’[/pullquote]The previous two-year budget spent $665 million for police and constituted 19.6% of the city budget. The mayor’s proposed budget had slightly increased the total dollars for police to $692 million but decreased the percentage police use from the city budget to 17.9%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>APTP has been calling on investments like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874272/build-something-powerful-oakland-aims-to-remove-police-from-some-nonviolent-911-calls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland\u003c/a>, also known as MACRO, which the council also supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a pilot program, trained MACRO personnel will respond to non-violent, non-criminal mental and behavioral health calls instead of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget passed Thursday will invest $4 million in MACRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879450\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Councilmember Carol Fife speaks at Lake Merritt during a vigil calling for peace on June 22, 2021, following the Juneteenth shooting that wounded seven people and left one man dead. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the investments in alternatives to police are expected to reduce violence, Taylor expressed concern that they are not proven or in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"opd\" label=\"More on Oakland police\"]“We are asking people to jump out of an airplane without a parachute, promising to get to them before they need it to land,” Taylor said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the final vote, Reid put forth an amendment to add a third police academy class in the first year of the budget and reduce the number of classes to one in the second year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid expressed concern about redirecting the proposed police spending when bullets are flying into the homes of East Oaklanders who she represents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid’s amendment failed by a vote of 6-3, with Kalb, Taylor and Reid as the three votes in favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from Bay City News and KQED’s Raquel Maria Dillon and Julie Chang.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The previous two-year budget spent $665 million for police and constituted 19.6% of the city budget. The mayor’s proposed budget had slightly increased the total dollars for police to $692 million but decreased the percentage police use from the city budget to 17.9%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>APTP has been calling on investments like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874272/build-something-powerful-oakland-aims-to-remove-police-from-some-nonviolent-911-calls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland\u003c/a>, also known as MACRO, which the council also supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a pilot program, trained MACRO personnel will respond to non-violent, non-criminal mental and behavioral health calls instead of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget passed Thursday will invest $4 million in MACRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879450\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11879450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50164_027_Oakland_JuneteenthShootingVigil_06222021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Councilmember Carol Fife speaks at Lake Merritt during a vigil calling for peace on June 22, 2021, following the Juneteenth shooting that wounded seven people and left one man dead. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the investments in alternatives to police are expected to reduce violence, Taylor expressed concern that they are not proven or in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Voters in Oakland, San Leandro and Alameda are choosing a new Assemblymember in a June 29 special election. The seat opened up when former Assemblymember Rob Bonta was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865953/newsom-names-east-bay-assemblyman-rob-bonta-as-californias-new-attorney-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">picked by Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> to be California’s Attorney General after Kamala Harris was elected vice president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight candidates will appear on the special election ballot. A candidate receiving a majority of votes wins the election, and if no candidate crosses the 50% threshold, the top two finishers will compete in a runoff scheduled for August 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a guide on how to vote and who is on the ballot:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>How to Vote? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Every registered voter in the district was mailed a ballot by default, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860552/state-legislature-votes-to-extend-universal-vote-by-mail-through-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">result of legislation\u003c/a> signed by Newsom earlier this year. Vote-by-mail dropboxes are \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/rovapps/maps/ballotdropbox_map.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available across the district\u003c/a> for voters looking to return their completed ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who prefer to cast a vote in person, Alameda County is opening ten voting locations, beginning on Saturday, June 26. Any voter in the district can drop off or cast a ballot at the locations from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday and Monday and 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/dpf2SsvsjPL3Adq86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Island High School\u003c/a>, 500 Pacific Drive, Alameda\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/83isNsuHZ11CJjYt6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Shore Center\u003c/a>, 2130 Otis Drive, Alameda\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/AQasZB3C8H24wfNN7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland High School\u003c/a>, 1023 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/2yUqELoez5iBga848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sequoia Elementary School (Gym)\u003c/a>, 3730 Lincoln Avenue, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/uZjcbfmL6co5TRvEA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Think College Now\u003c/a>, 2825 International Boulevard, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/9AZQpWmwckyqqBAV8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kapor Center (Annex Warehouse)\u003c/a>, 1901 Poplar Street, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/ZtjMycza6y67YuCd7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allen Temple Baptist Church\u003c/a>, 8501 International Boulevard, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/FKJfzEGE7BGYybfVA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eastmont Mall (Upper Level)\u003c/a>, 7200 Bancroft Avenue, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/JLJvpsv7LGtArM6H7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Leandro Veterans Memorial Building\u003c/a>, 1105 Bancroft Avenue, San Leandro\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/yLvzZUvxXyBkj5eR9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barbara Lee Center for Health and Wellness\u003c/a>, 2251 Bancroft Avenue, San Leandro\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Top Candidates \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>(\u003cem>Top candidates have been actively campaigning and regularly appearing at candidate forums)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Aguilar\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 260px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11879369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50137_51086357591_cb2e8121e3_o-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50137_51086357591_cb2e8121e3_o-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50137_51086357591_cb2e8121e3_o-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50137_51086357591_cb2e8121e3_o-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50137_51086357591_cb2e8121e3_o-qut-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50137_51086357591_cb2e8121e3_o-qut-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50137_51086357591_cb2e8121e3_o-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Aguilar, San Leandro Unified School District board trustee and candidate for state Assembly in the 18th district. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of James Aguilar campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Party: Democrat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently: Board of Education Member, San Leandro Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing Pitch: \u003cb>Generational change. \u003c/b>Call it the Alex Lee effect. Last year, the 24-year-old Lee shocked a field of more experienced Democrats and emerged from a state Assembly primary in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Aguilar was 18 when he was elected to the school board in 2018, becoming the youngest elected official in the Bay Area. He hopes a generational pitch will make him the second Generation Z lawmaker to win a seat in the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to bring a really big and needed perspective in the Assembly,” Aguilar said, “because I come from the generation of people that are going to inherit the consequences of the decisions that my parents made, the consequences of the climate crisis, of an education crisis that’s here right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victor Aguilar\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 260px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11879368\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50136_headshot-qut-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50136_headshot-qut-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50136_headshot-qut-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50136_headshot-qut-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50136_headshot-qut-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50136_headshot-qut-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50136_headshot-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Leandro vice mayor Victor Aguilar, a candidate for state Assembly in the 18th district. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Victor Aguilar campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Party: Democrat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently: Vice Mayor, City of San Leandro\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing Pitch: \u003cb>Pandemic Resilience. \u003c/b>Aguilar believes he’s uniquely positioned to turn the pain of the COVID-19 pandemic into lasting policy change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I started to campaign to run, I lost my mom to COVID-19,” he said. “Advocating for families who are frontline workers — my family are frontline workers — it’s been very challenging. California’s response to COVID-19 would have been different if we prioritized people over profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar said the state needs a universal single-payer healthcare system and worker protections like the hazard pay for retail workers he helped pass in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mia Bonta\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 375px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11879104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50114_004_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50114_004_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50114_004_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50114_004_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50114_004_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50114_004_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mia Bonta, candidate for state Assembly in District 18, which includes Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro, speaks with students at her campaign headquarters in Oakland on June 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Party: Democrat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently: School Board President, Alameda Unified School District\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing Pitch: \u003cstrong>Hitting the Ground Running.\u003c/strong> In her campaign to follow her husband in the Assembly, Mia Bonta has relished the opportunity “to be able to introduce people to my first name and what I stand for and what I’m about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But make no mistake, Bonta’s Capitol connections and relationships (more than 20 endorsements from sitting legislators) could prove invaluable in helping her enact her agenda and aid the district from Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been going through COVID and experiencing these dual pandemics of reckoning around systemic racism as well as the pandemic,” said Bonta. “It calls for this moment where we have make-sense, can-do, roll-up-your-sleeves, hit-the-ground-running legislators, and that’s me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janani Ramachandran \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 260px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11878684\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut-800x870.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is smiling at the camera.\" width=\"260\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut-800x870.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut-160x174.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janani Ramachandran, social justice attorney and candidate for state Assembly in the 18th district. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Janani Ramachandran campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Party: Democrat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently: Social Justice Attorney\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing Pitch: \u003cstrong>Not a Politician.\u003c/strong> Unlike the other candidates at the top of the AD 18 field, Ramachandran has never held elected office. As an attorney, she’s worked with victims of domestic violence and residents facing eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran’s commitment to a grassroots campaign has won the backing of progressive groups like the Bernie Sanders-aligned Our Revolution and Indivisible East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m running in this race not as a politician, but as a public servant and someone that’s going to be able to change things from my direct services experience, from my knowledge of working with communities my entire life,” Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Malia Vella\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 375px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11879110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malia Vella, the vice mayor of Alameda, poses for a portrait in Alameda on June 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Party: Democrat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently: Vice Mayor, City of Alameda\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing Pitch: \u003cstrong>A Record of Accomplishments.\u003c/strong> In her four years on the Alameda City Council, Vella has been a leading voice in housing battles on the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Vella helped defeat a measure that would have restricted future rent protections. The next year, she led the enactment of an annual cap on rent increases. And in 2020, she drove an unsuccessful campaign to legalize multifamily apartment buildings in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve worked across coalitions, building coalitions throughout my time as an elected official to really be an effective leader,” said Vella. “I can speak about my record, about the housing that I have voted to make sure goes through and to talk to [voters] about how we can make sure that we take care of vulnerable community members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Rest of the Field\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nJoel Britton \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Party: No Party Preference\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently: Retail Worker\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About: Britton is a perennial candidate for state and local office. He appeared on the 2003 recall ballot to replace then-Gov. Gray Davis, and also ran for U.S. Senate, Congress and mayor of San Francisco and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"ad18\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003cstrong>Eugene Canson \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Party: Democrat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently: Public Health Professional\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About: Canson works as a policy consultant for California Black Health Network, an advocacy organization focused on improving health equity for Black residents of the state. Before that, he was a policy analyst for the Alameda Health Consortium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephen Slauson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Party: Republican\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently: Electrical Engineer\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About: Slauson advanced out of the 2018 and 2020 primaries in AD 18 before eventually losing to Rob Bonta in the general elections. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Voters in Oakland, San Leandro and Alameda are choosing a new Assemblymember in a June 29 special election. The seat opened up when former Assemblymember Rob Bonta was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865953/newsom-names-east-bay-assemblyman-rob-bonta-as-californias-new-attorney-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">picked by Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> to be California’s Attorney General after Kamala Harris was elected vice president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight candidates will appear on the special election ballot. A candidate receiving a majority of votes wins the election, and if no candidate crosses the 50% threshold, the top two finishers will compete in a runoff scheduled for August 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a guide on how to vote and who is on the ballot:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>How to Vote? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Every registered voter in the district was mailed a ballot by default, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860552/state-legislature-votes-to-extend-universal-vote-by-mail-through-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">result of legislation\u003c/a> signed by Newsom earlier this year. Vote-by-mail dropboxes are \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/rovapps/maps/ballotdropbox_map.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available across the district\u003c/a> for voters looking to return their completed ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who prefer to cast a vote in person, Alameda County is opening ten voting locations, beginning on Saturday, June 26. Any voter in the district can drop off or cast a ballot at the locations from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday and Monday and 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/dpf2SsvsjPL3Adq86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Island High School\u003c/a>, 500 Pacific Drive, Alameda\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/83isNsuHZ11CJjYt6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Shore Center\u003c/a>, 2130 Otis Drive, Alameda\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/AQasZB3C8H24wfNN7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland High School\u003c/a>, 1023 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/2yUqELoez5iBga848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sequoia Elementary School (Gym)\u003c/a>, 3730 Lincoln Avenue, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/uZjcbfmL6co5TRvEA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Think College Now\u003c/a>, 2825 International Boulevard, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/9AZQpWmwckyqqBAV8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kapor Center (Annex Warehouse)\u003c/a>, 1901 Poplar Street, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/ZtjMycza6y67YuCd7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allen Temple Baptist Church\u003c/a>, 8501 International Boulevard, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/FKJfzEGE7BGYybfVA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eastmont Mall (Upper Level)\u003c/a>, 7200 Bancroft Avenue, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/JLJvpsv7LGtArM6H7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Leandro Veterans Memorial Building\u003c/a>, 1105 Bancroft Avenue, San Leandro\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/yLvzZUvxXyBkj5eR9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barbara Lee Center for Health and Wellness\u003c/a>, 2251 Bancroft Avenue, San Leandro\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Top Candidates \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>(\u003cem>Top candidates have been actively campaigning and regularly appearing at candidate forums)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Aguilar\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 260px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11879369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50137_51086357591_cb2e8121e3_o-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50137_51086357591_cb2e8121e3_o-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50137_51086357591_cb2e8121e3_o-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50137_51086357591_cb2e8121e3_o-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50137_51086357591_cb2e8121e3_o-qut-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50137_51086357591_cb2e8121e3_o-qut-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50137_51086357591_cb2e8121e3_o-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Aguilar, San Leandro Unified School District board trustee and candidate for state Assembly in the 18th district. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of James Aguilar campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Party: Democrat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently: Board of Education Member, San Leandro Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing Pitch: \u003cb>Generational change. \u003c/b>Call it the Alex Lee effect. Last year, the 24-year-old Lee shocked a field of more experienced Democrats and emerged from a state Assembly primary in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Aguilar was 18 when he was elected to the school board in 2018, becoming the youngest elected official in the Bay Area. He hopes a generational pitch will make him the second Generation Z lawmaker to win a seat in the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to bring a really big and needed perspective in the Assembly,” Aguilar said, “because I come from the generation of people that are going to inherit the consequences of the decisions that my parents made, the consequences of the climate crisis, of an education crisis that’s here right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victor Aguilar\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 260px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11879368\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50136_headshot-qut-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50136_headshot-qut-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50136_headshot-qut-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50136_headshot-qut-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50136_headshot-qut-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50136_headshot-qut-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50136_headshot-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Leandro vice mayor Victor Aguilar, a candidate for state Assembly in the 18th district. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Victor Aguilar campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Party: Democrat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently: Vice Mayor, City of San Leandro\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing Pitch: \u003cb>Pandemic Resilience. \u003c/b>Aguilar believes he’s uniquely positioned to turn the pain of the COVID-19 pandemic into lasting policy change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I started to campaign to run, I lost my mom to COVID-19,” he said. “Advocating for families who are frontline workers — my family are frontline workers — it’s been very challenging. California’s response to COVID-19 would have been different if we prioritized people over profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar said the state needs a universal single-payer healthcare system and worker protections like the hazard pay for retail workers he helped pass in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mia Bonta\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 375px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11879104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50114_004_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50114_004_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50114_004_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50114_004_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50114_004_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50114_004_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mia Bonta, candidate for state Assembly in District 18, which includes Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro, speaks with students at her campaign headquarters in Oakland on June 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Party: Democrat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently: School Board President, Alameda Unified School District\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing Pitch: \u003cstrong>Hitting the Ground Running.\u003c/strong> In her campaign to follow her husband in the Assembly, Mia Bonta has relished the opportunity “to be able to introduce people to my first name and what I stand for and what I’m about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But make no mistake, Bonta’s Capitol connections and relationships (more than 20 endorsements from sitting legislators) could prove invaluable in helping her enact her agenda and aid the district from Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been going through COVID and experiencing these dual pandemics of reckoning around systemic racism as well as the pandemic,” said Bonta. “It calls for this moment where we have make-sense, can-do, roll-up-your-sleeves, hit-the-ground-running legislators, and that’s me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janani Ramachandran \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 260px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11878684\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut-800x870.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is smiling at the camera.\" width=\"260\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut-800x870.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut-160x174.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50020_Janani-Headshot-4-copy-942x1024-qut.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janani Ramachandran, social justice attorney and candidate for state Assembly in the 18th district. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Janani Ramachandran campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Party: Democrat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently: Social Justice Attorney\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing Pitch: \u003cstrong>Not a Politician.\u003c/strong> Unlike the other candidates at the top of the AD 18 field, Ramachandran has never held elected office. As an attorney, she’s worked with victims of domestic violence and residents facing eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran’s commitment to a grassroots campaign has won the backing of progressive groups like the Bernie Sanders-aligned Our Revolution and Indivisible East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m running in this race not as a politician, but as a public servant and someone that’s going to be able to change things from my direct services experience, from my knowledge of working with communities my entire life,” Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Malia Vella\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 375px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11879110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS50122_002_Alameda_MaliaVella_06232021-qut.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malia Vella, the vice mayor of Alameda, poses for a portrait in Alameda on June 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Party: Democrat\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently: Vice Mayor, City of Alameda\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing Pitch: \u003cstrong>A Record of Accomplishments.\u003c/strong> In her four years on the Alameda City Council, Vella has been a leading voice in housing battles on the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Vella helped defeat a measure that would have restricted future rent protections. 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"content": "\u003cp>Candidates\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878253/organized-labor-flexes-power-in-east-bay-assembly-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> jousting in a special election\u003c/a> to represent Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro in the state Assembly could provide key votes later this year on contentious housing proposals currently moving through the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leading contenders in the 18th District, Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869066/mia-bonta-enters-race-to-replace-husband-rob-in-the-state-assembly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mia Bonta\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866499/east-bay-state-assembly-candidates-launch-campaigns-to-fill-rob-bontas-seat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Janani Ramachandran and Malia Vella\u003c/a>, have all vowed to prioritize solutions to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818184/bay-area-housing-post-pandemic-whats-in-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state and regional housing crisis\u003c/a> if they emerge victorious in a June 29 special election or a potential Aug. 31 runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their contrasting approaches on the issue of housing can be seen in their stances on Senate Bills 9 and 10, two proposals aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860308/why-just-allowing-fourplexes-wont-solve-californias-housing-affordability-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">making it easier to build duplexes\u003c/a> and small apartment buildings across the state. 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The seat has been vacant since Rob Bonta, Mia Bonta’s husband, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870739/california-confirms-rob-bonta-as-first-filipino-american-attorney-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed as the state attorney general\u003c/a> in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YIMBY Action has endorsed Vella, the current vice mayor of Alameda. 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[pullquote]All three contenders in the eight candidate field have cited the specter of evictions — either in their neighborhoods or own lives — as a motivation for entering the race.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to upzone, but we can’t do it without a tenant rights lens,” Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the bills say the status quo does nothing to make housing more affordable: Neighborhoods currently zoned for single-family housing have no state requirement for affordability, and barriers to upzoning prevent cities from approving denser housing at any income level. 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